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Hálfr Innkv 3VIII (Hálf 19)

Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 19 (Hálfr Hjǫrleifsson, Innsteinskviða 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 320.

Hálfr HjǫrleifssonInnsteinskviða
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Æ ‘always’

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2. æ (adv.): always, forever

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lystir ‘wish’

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lysta (verb): desire

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æðru ‘words of fear’

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1. æðra (noun f.; °-u): [fright, subject]

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[2] at mæla æðru ‘to utter words of fear’: Lit. ‘to speak fear’.

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at ‘to’

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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)

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[2] at mæla æðru ‘to utter words of fear’: Lit. ‘to speak fear’.

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mæla ‘utter’

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1. mæla (verb): speak, say

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[2] at mæla æðru ‘to utter words of fear’: Lit. ‘to speak fear’.

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mun ‘will’

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munu (verb): will, must

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ekki ‘not’

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2. ekki (adv.): not

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konungr ‘king’

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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king

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sáttir ‘agreement’

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sátt (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): settlement

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rjúfa ‘break’

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rjúfa (verb): break

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Gull ‘gold’

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gull (noun n.): gold

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þar ‘There’

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þar (adv.): there

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ok ‘and’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

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gersimar ‘jewels’

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gǫrsemi (noun f.): costly thing, treasure

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rauða ‘red’

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rauðr (adj.; °compar. -ari): red

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frá ‘from’

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frá (prep.): from

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