Innsteinn Innkv 2VIII (Hálf 16)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 16 (Innsteinn Gunnlaðarson, Innsteinskviða 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 318.
Sér ‘see’
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2. sjá (verb): see
ekki ‘do not’
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2. ekki (adv.): not
þú ‘You’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
allan ‘whole’
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allr (adj.): all
Ásmundar ‘Ásmundr’s’
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ásmundr (noun m.; °; -ar): Ásmundr
hug ‘mind’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage
hefir ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
fylkir ‘prince’
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fylkir (noun m.): leader
flærð ‘falsehood’
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flærð (noun f.): falsehood, deceit
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
brjósti ‘breast’
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brjóst (noun n.; °-s; -): breast, chest
Mundir ‘should’
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munu (verb): will, must
þú ‘You’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
þengill ‘king’
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þengill (noun m.): prince, ruler
ef ‘if’
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3. ef (conj.): if
notes
[6] ef vér réðim því ‘if it were up to us [me]’: Lit. ‘if we decided about that’. With earlier eds, the ms.’s réðum has been normalised to réðim (pret. subj.), which would have been normal in a text of the C13th in a concessive clause (cf. ANG §536.2), but in a C15th ms. reflects the later Icelandic use of the indic. ending in such circumstances. Similar are Hálf 60/4, 6.
vér ‘to us [me]’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
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[6] ef vér réðim því ‘if it were up to us [me]’: Lit. ‘if we decided about that’. With earlier eds, the ms.’s réðum has been normalised to réðim (pret. subj.), which would have been normal in a text of the C13th in a concessive clause (cf. ANG §536.2), but in a C15th ms. reflects the later Icelandic use of the indic. ending in such circumstances. Similar are Hálf 60/4, 6.
því ‘it’
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[6] ef vér réðim því ‘if it were up to us [me]’: Lit. ‘if we decided about that’. With earlier eds, the ms.’s réðum has been normalised to réðim (pret. subj.), which would have been normal in a text of the C13th in a concessive clause (cf. ANG §536.2), but in a C15th ms. reflects the later Icelandic use of the indic. ending in such circumstances. Similar are Hálf 60/4, 6.
réðim ‘were up’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
notes
[6] ef vér réðim því ‘if it were up to us [me]’: Lit. ‘if we decided about that’. With earlier eds, the ms.’s réðum has been normalised to réðim (pret. subj.), which would have been normal in a text of the C13th in a concessive clause (cf. ANG §536.2), but in a C15th ms. reflects the later Icelandic use of the indic. ending in such circumstances. Similar are Hálf 60/4, 6.
mági ‘kinsman’
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mágr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): brother-, father-, or son-in-law
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[7] mági ‘kinsman’: Mágr, usually meaning ‘brother-in-law, son-in-law, father-in-law’, here refers to Hálfr’s stepfather, Ásmundr.
þínum ‘your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
mjök ‘very’
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mjǫk (adv.): very, much
litt ‘little’
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lítt (adv.): a bit
trúa ‘trust’
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2. trúa (verb): to believe (in)
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