Anon Eirm 6I
R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Eiríksmál 6’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1011.
Hví ‘Why’
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hví (adv.): why
es ‘do’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
Eireks ‘Eiríkr’
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Eiríkr (noun m.): Eiríkr
vôn ‘expect’
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ván (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): hope, expectation
[1] vôn *: vôn kvað Sigmundr all
heldr ‘rather’
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heldr (adv.): rather
an ‘than’
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2. an (conj.): than
annarra ‘other’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
konunga ‘kings’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
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[2] konunga ‘kings’: Fsk 1902-3, Skj and Skald omit this, presumably for metrical reasons.
Því ‘Because’
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því (adv.): therefore, because
at ‘’
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4. at (conj.): that
mǫrgu ‘in many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
hefr ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
mæki ‘his blade’
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mækir (noun m.): sword
roðit ‘reddened’
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rjóða (verb): to redden
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
blóðugt ‘a bloody’
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blóðigr (adj.; °blóðgan/blóðugan (f. dat. sg. bloðre Gulᴵ 82³⁴)): bloody
sverð ‘sword’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
borit ‘borne’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
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As for st. 1 (Fsk).
The speaker in ll. 1-2 is Sigmundr, and in ll. 3-5 it is Óðinn. The phrases identifying them as such in the mss, however, are extrametrical and are omitted here; see Introduction to the poem. — [3]: Sahlgren (1927-8, I, 7, and similarly Skald and Lindquist 1929, 10), analysing the metre of the stanza as ljóðaháttr, assumes that a line is missing between ll. 2 and 3, and he supplies til Valhallar vituð, lit. ‘to Valhǫll known’ (cf. vôn vituð, lit. ‘expectation known’, st. 5/6). In actuality, the pattern here seems to be the málaháttr couplet followed by three lines of ljóðaháttr, as in st. 7; cf. also Þhorn Harkv 18, 20, 22.
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