Anon (Hálf) 3VIII (Hálf 13)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 13 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 316.
Minntiz ‘remembered’
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1. minna (verb): remind, remember, recall
Hreiðarr ‘Hreiðarr’
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Hreiðarr (noun m.)
hvar ‘where’
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hvar (adv.): where
Hera ‘Heri’
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3. Heri (noun m.): Heri
fellduð ‘you slew’
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3. fella (verb): fell, kill
vá ‘woe’
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1. vá (noun f.; °vár): woe, harm
vakðiz ‘was roused’
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4. vaka (verb): awaken
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
fyrir ‘before’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
vestrdyrum ‘the western gate’
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vestrdyrr (noun f.)
Enn ‘Still’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
man ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
hon ‘she’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[5, 7] hon, byrsæl kona ‘she, the woman who is lucky in getting a fair wind’: Lit. ‘she, the fair wind-fortunate woman’. The identity of this woman is also unclear, though ll. 5-8 may reiterate the personification of warfare in the person of a valkyrie that occurs in several of the merman’s stanzas. It is possible that the two helmingar of this stanza were once separate.
sinna ‘travel’
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2. sinna (verb): travel
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
sala ‘hall’
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1. salr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; dat. sǫlum): hall
þinna ‘your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
byrsæl ‘who is lucky in getting a fair wind’
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byrsæll (adj.; °compar. ·sǽlli): °lucky at getting a favourable wind
notes
[5, 7] hon, byrsæl kona ‘she, the woman who is lucky in getting a fair wind’: Lit. ‘she, the fair wind-fortunate woman’. The identity of this woman is also unclear, though ll. 5-8 may reiterate the personification of warfare in the person of a valkyrie that occurs in several of the merman’s stanzas. It is possible that the two helmingar of this stanza were once separate.
kona ‘the woman’
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kona (noun f.; °-u; -ur/-r(KlmA1980 116¹¹), gen. pl. kvenna/kvinna): woman
notes
[5, 7] hon, byrsæl kona ‘she, the woman who is lucky in getting a fair wind’: Lit. ‘she, the fair wind-fortunate woman’. The identity of this woman is also unclear, though ll. 5-8 may reiterate the personification of warfare in the person of a valkyrie that occurs in several of the merman’s stanzas. It is possible that the two helmingar of this stanza were once separate.
bíð ‘wait’
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bíða (verb; °bíðr; beið, biðu; beðit): wait, suffer, experience
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
enn ‘just’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
konungr ‘king’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
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The stanza is preceded by the words: Þann en sama aptan, er Hjörleifr kóngr kom, heyrði Hreiðarr kóngr kveðit … ‘On the very evening, when King Hjǫrleifr came, King Hreiðarr heard a voice say …’.
It is unclear to whom this stanza is addressed. While l. 1 speaks of Hreiðarr in the 3rd pers. and l. 2 addresses Hreiðarr’s enemies, who killed his son Heri, in the 2nd pers. pl., ll. 3-8 seem to be directed to Hreiðarr himself. These apparent inconsistencies explain the emendations from minntiz ‘[he] remembered’ (l. 1) and fellduð ‘you (pl.) slew’ (l. 2) by some eds in ll. 1-2 (cf. Hálf 1981, 116-17 for further detail).
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