Gríml Lv 5VIII (GrL 7)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Gríms saga loðinkinna 7 (Grímr loðinkinni, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 297.
Fyrst ‘First’
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fyrstr (num. ordinal): first
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
líkja ‘follow’
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líkja (verb): be like
eptir ‘the example’
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eptir (prep.): after, behind
mínum ‘of my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
skal ‘shall’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
notes
[3] skal eigi ‘shall not’: All previous eds with the exception of Anderson (1990, 449) replace the negative particle eigi or ei which appears in the mss of the saga with the enclitic negation -a or -at.
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
notes
[3] skal eigi ‘shall not’: All previous eds with the exception of Anderson (1990, 449) replace the negative particle eigi or ei which appears in the mss of the saga with the enclitic negation -a or -at.
mín ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
nema ‘unless’
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2. nema (conj.): unless
notes
[4] nema skör höggviz ‘unless my head is hewn off’: The noun skör refers to the hair on one’s head; here it is a synecdoche for the whole head.
skör ‘head’
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skǫr (noun f.; °skarar; skarir): hair, planking
notes
[4] nema skör höggviz ‘unless my head is hewn off’: The noun skör refers to the hair on one’s head; here it is a synecdoche for the whole head.
höggviz ‘is hewn off’
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hǫggva (verb): to strike, put to death, cut, hew
notes
[4] nema skör höggviz ‘unless my head is hewn off’: The noun skör refers to the hair on one’s head; here it is a synecdoche for the whole head.
nauðig ‘against her will’
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nauðigr (adj.; °nauðgan; superl. nauðgastr): reluctant(ly), under duress
gefin ‘be given’
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gefa (verb): give
neinum ‘to any’
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neinn (pron.): any, none
manni ‘man’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
guðvefs ‘of costly fabric’
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guðvefr (noun m.): precious fabric
kennings
þella guðvefs,‘the fir-tree of costly fabric, ’
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the fir-tree of costly fabric, → WOMAN
þella ‘the fir-tree’
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þella (noun f.): fir, young pine
kennings
þella guðvefs,‘the fir-tree of costly fabric, ’
= WOMAN
the fir-tree of costly fabric, → WOMAN
meðan ‘while’
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meðan (conj.): while
Grímr ‘Grímr’
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Grímr (noun m.): Grímr
lifir ‘is [I am] alive’
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lifa (verb): live
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Four mss preserve this stanza in a form which is unequivocally complete: 343a, 471, 340ˣ and 109a Iˣ. It is not clear whether the readings from other mss are to be regarded as poetry or prose because ll. 4 and 6 are omitted and the remainder are highly irregular metrically.
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