Innsteinn Innkv 17VIII (Hálf 37)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 37 (Innsteinn Gunnlaðarson, Innsteinskviða 17)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 333.
Hér ‘Here’
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hér (adv.): here
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
Innsteinn ‘Innsteinn’
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Innsteinn (noun m.)
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
jarðar ‘the ground’
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jǫrð (noun f.; °jarðar, dat. -u; jarðir/jarðar(DN I (1367) 304)): ground, earth
hníga ‘sink’
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hníga (verb): sink, fall
hoskr ‘prudent’
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horskr (adj.; °compar. -ari): wise
at ‘by’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
höfði ‘the head’
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hǫfuð (noun n.; °-s; -): head
hers ‘of the army’
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herr (noun m.; °-s/-jar, dat. -; -jar, gen. -ja/herra): army, host
kennings
oddvita hers.‘of the leader of the army. ’
= KING = Hálfr
the leader of the army. → KING = Hálfr
notes
[4] oddvita hers ‘of the leader of the army [KING = Hálfr]’: Cf. Hálf 35/4 oddvita fólks ‘of the leader of the people [KING = Hálfr]’ and Note.
oddvita ‘of the leader’
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oddviti (noun m.): leader
kennings
oddvita hers.‘of the leader of the army. ’
= KING = Hálfr
the leader of the army. → KING = Hálfr
notes
[4] oddvita hers ‘of the leader of the army [KING = Hálfr]’: Cf. Hálf 35/4 oddvita fólks ‘of the leader of the people [KING = Hálfr]’ and Note.
munu ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
seggir ‘Men’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
at ‘into’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
sögum ‘tales’
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1. saga (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): story, saga
gjöra ‘fashion’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
Hálfr ‘Hálfr’
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Hálfr (noun m.): Hálfr
konungr ‘king’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
hlæjandi ‘laughing’
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hlæja (verb): laugh
dó ‘died’
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1. deyja (verb; °deyr; dó, dó(u); dá(i)nn): die
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[5-8]: Innsteinn’s expressed awareness that people will turn the Hálfsrekkar’s heroic last stand into tales (at sögum) signals his recognition of Innkv’s place within the tradition of the hall fight (cf. Introduction to Innkv, part 1). The conceit that those tales will portray Hálfr as dying laughing is strongly reminiscent of the final line of Anon Krm 29/8 (see Note there) in which the dying Ragnarr loðbrók exclaims læjandi skal ek deyja ‘I’ll die laughing’. Another hero who dies laughing, as his heart is cut from his body, is Hǫgni in Akv 24/1.
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