Hróksv Hrkv 10VIII (Hálf 60)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 60 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 10)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 352.
Váru ‘There were’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
ekki ‘not’
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2. ekki (adv.): not
svá ‘so’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
margir ‘many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
menn ‘men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
skeiðum ‘the warships’
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1. skeið (noun f.; °-ar; -r/-ar/-ir): ship
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
vér ‘we’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
á ‘to’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
flótta ‘flight’
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flótti (noun m.): flight, fleeing
heldim ‘would take’
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halda (verb): hold, keep
notes
[4, 6] heldim … hefðim ‘would take … had’: Normalised to the pret. subj. forms where the ms., following C14th Icelandic practice, has generalised the indic. endings (cf. ANG §536.2; Björn K. Þórólfsson 1925, 54-6).
þó ‘although’
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þó (adv.): though
at ‘’
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4. at (conj.): that
notes
[5] miklu ‘much’: Lit. ‘by much’. The ms. has mikla, which gives no sense. See Fritzner: mikill 3 for the usage of miklu with a comp. adj.
lið ‘host’
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lið (noun n.; °-s; -): retinue, troop
minna ‘smaller’
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3. minni (adj. comp.; °superl. minnstr): less, least
hefðim ‘we had’
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hafa (verb): have
notes
[4, 6] heldim … hefðim ‘would take … had’: Normalised to the pret. subj. forms where the ms., following C14th Icelandic practice, has generalised the indic. endings (cf. ANG §536.2; Björn K. Þórólfsson 1925, 54-6).
svá ‘so’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
ellifu ‘eleven’
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ellifu (num. cardinal): eleven
gegndi ‘encountered’
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gegna (verb): encounter, mean
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According to the prose text (Hálf 1981, ch. 5, 178, l. 36), Hálfr never had more than sixty men on board his ship.
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