Innsteinn Innkv 11VIII (Hálf 31)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 31 (Innsteinn Gunnlaðarson, Innsteinskviða 11)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 329.
Hrindum ‘May we succeed’
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1. hrinda (verb): launch, propell
notes
[1] hrindum heilir ‘may we succeed in pushing’: Lit. ‘May we fortunate push’. The verb hrinda ‘push, thrust’ takes the dat. of what is pushed, here bjóri hallar ‘the gable wall of the hall’ (l. 2). Cf. Hálf 34/5 for a similar use of heilir plus verb.
heilir ‘in pushing’
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3. heill (adj.; °heilan; compar. heilli, superl. -astr/-str): healthy, hale, hail
notes
[1] hrindum heilir ‘may we succeed in pushing’: Lit. ‘May we fortunate push’. The verb hrinda ‘push, thrust’ takes the dat. of what is pushed, here bjóri hallar ‘the gable wall of the hall’ (l. 2). Cf. Hálf 34/5 for a similar use of heilir plus verb.
hallar ‘of the hall’
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1. hǫll (noun f.; °hallar, dat. -u/-; hallir): hall
bjóri ‘the gable wall’
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2. bjórr (noun m.; °dat. -; -ar): wall
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
taka ‘begin’
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2. taka (verb): take
súlur ‘the pillars’
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súla (noun f.; °-u; -ur): °stolpe, søjle; halskrave på husdyr
í ‘’
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í (prep.): in, into
sundr ‘asunder’
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sundr (adv.): (a)sunder
þoka ‘to move’
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2. þoka (verb): [move, Let move]
Æ ‘always’
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2. æ (adv.): always, forever
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
uppi ‘be remembered’
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uppi (adv.): up, up in
öld ‘mankind’
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ǫld (noun f.; °; aldir): people, age
lifir ‘lives’
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lifa (verb): live
Hálfs ‘of Hálfr’s’
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Hálfr (noun m.): Hálfr
rekka ‘champions’
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rekkr (noun m.; °; -ar): man, champion
för ‘The journey’
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fǫr (noun f.): journey, fate; movement
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
hertoga ‘the army-commander’
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hertogi (noun m.): duke
notes
[8] hertoga ‘to the army-commander’: The reference here is presumably to Ásmundr, whereas in Hálf 35/2 the same term is used to refer to Hálfr. The cpd occurs as a heiti for king in Þul Konunga 2/2III; see Note there.
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[5-6]: These lines are a commonplace, expressing the enduring importance of notable events or achievements to human society. The same two lines are at Vsp 16/5-6 and the first is at Heiðr 119/5.
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