Útsteinn Útkv 1VIII (Hálf 39)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 39 (Útsteinn Gunnlaðarson, Útsteinskviða 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 336.
Upp ‘’
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upp (adv.): up
skulum ‘Let us’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
rísa ‘arise’
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rísa (verb): rise, raise
út ‘out’
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út (adv.): out(side)
skulum ‘let us’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
ganga ‘go’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
ramligar ‘strong’
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rammligr (adj.): strong
randir ‘shields’
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rǫnd (noun f.; °dat. -/-u; rendr/randir): shield, shield-rim
knýja ‘bash’
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knýja (verb): press forward, urge, drive
Hygg ‘I believe’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
hjálmum ‘helmets’
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1. hjalmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): helmet
hingat ‘here’
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hingat (adv.): (to) here
komnar ‘have come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
dísir ‘dísir’
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dís (noun f.; °; -ir): dís, woman
notes
[8]: Dísir is the name for female guardian spirits, often considered to safeguard the interests of a particular individual or his or her family (cf. Ström 1961, 192-4; Turville-Petre 1964, 221-7). The claim that they have ‘come here to Denmark with helmets’ probably indicates the warlike state of mind of the dísir rather than their actual provision of helmets to Útsteinn. These dísir behave very much like valkyries.
várar ‘our’
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várr (pron.; °f. ór/vár; pl. órir/várir): our
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The stanza is preceded by the sentence: Útsteinn kvað, er Úlfr jafnaði sér við hann ok eggjaði hann ‘Útsteinn said, when Úlfr compared himself to him and provoked him’.
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