Hróksv Hrkv 13VIII (Hálf 63)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 63 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 13)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 354.
Mest ‘Most’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
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[1-2] mest hugðir manna mér ‘most friendly of [all] men towards me’: On the meaning of this phrase, see Fritzner: hugaðr 2. Andrews (Hálf 1909) misunderstands the idiom to mean Ich schätzte am meisten von der mannschaft … ‘I treasured most from the men …’. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends mest (l. 1) to bezt ‘best’ and translates mine bedste venner ‘my best friends’. In LP: hugaðr, Finnur quotes this example under two separate senses of the adj. ‘courageous’ and ‘friendly’.
váru ‘were’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
mér ‘towards me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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[1-2] mest hugðir manna mér ‘most friendly of [all] men towards me’: On the meaning of this phrase, see Fritzner: hugaðr 2. Andrews (Hálf 1909) misunderstands the idiom to mean Ich schätzte am meisten von der mannschaft … ‘I treasured most from the men …’. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends mest (l. 1) to bezt ‘best’ and translates mine bedste venner ‘my best friends’. In LP: hugaðr, Finnur quotes this example under two separate senses of the adj. ‘courageous’ and ‘friendly’.
manna ‘of [all] men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
notes
[1-2] mest hugðir manna mér ‘most friendly of [all] men towards me’: On the meaning of this phrase, see Fritzner: hugaðr 2. Andrews (Hálf 1909) misunderstands the idiom to mean Ich schätzte am meisten von der mannschaft … ‘I treasured most from the men …’. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends mest (l. 1) to bezt ‘best’ and translates mine bedste venner ‘my best friends’. In LP: hugaðr, Finnur quotes this example under two separate senses of the adj. ‘courageous’ and ‘friendly’.
hugðir ‘friendly’
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huga (verb): consider, mind, think
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[1-2] mest hugðir manna mér ‘most friendly of [all] men towards me’: On the meaning of this phrase, see Fritzner: hugaðr 2. Andrews (Hálf 1909) misunderstands the idiom to mean Ich schätzte am meisten von der mannschaft … ‘I treasured most from the men …’. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends mest (l. 1) to bezt ‘best’ and translates mine bedste venner ‘my best friends’. In LP: hugaðr, Finnur quotes this example under two separate senses of the adj. ‘courageous’ and ‘friendly’.
Hrókr ‘Hrókr’
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Hrókr (noun m.)
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[3] Hrókr: That is, Hrókr inn hvíti ‘Rook the White’.
minn ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
Hálfr ‘Hálfr’
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Hálfr (noun m.): Hálfr
konungr ‘King’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
Styrr ‘Styrr’
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styrr (noun m.; °dat. -): battle
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
Steinar ‘Steinar’
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Steinarr (noun m.): Steinarr
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[5] Steinar ‘[the two] Steinar’: That is, the two brothers each named Steinn ‘Stone’, Innsteinn and Útsteinn; see Hálf 26, Note to l. 4.
sterkir ‘strong’
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sterkr (adj.): strong
báðir ‘both’
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báðir (pron.; °gen. beggja (báðra), nom./acc. n. bǽði): both
snarráðir ‘resolute’
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snarráðr (adj.): swift-counselled, resolute
menn ‘men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
synir ‘the sons’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
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[8] synir Gunnlaðar ‘the sons of Gunnlǫð’: Gunnlǫð is named as the mother of the two Steinar in the prose text (Hálf 1981, 177, ch. 5, ll. 3-5). She was married to Álfr inn gamli ‘the Old’, jarl of Hordaland (Hǫrðaland), and was the sister of the district chieftain Hámundr inn frækni ‘the Bold’, the father of the two men named Hrókr ‘Rook’. Thus the ‘Stones’ were first cousins of the ‘Rooks’. The pers. n. Gunnlǫð is uncommon (Lind 1905-15, 416-17), but occurs in a mythological context in Hávm 105-10 and SnE (SnE 1998, I, 4) as the name of the daughter of the giant Suttungr, who allowed Óðinn to gain possession of the mead of poetry; cf. Steinþ Frag 1/2III and Note. It is also the name given to the daughter of Hrókr inn svarti and Brynhildr Hakadóttir (see Hálf 75, Note to [All]).
Gunnlaðar ‘of Gunnlǫð’
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Gunnlǫð (noun f.)
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[8] synir Gunnlaðar ‘the sons of Gunnlǫð’: Gunnlǫð is named as the mother of the two Steinar in the prose text (Hálf 1981, 177, ch. 5, ll. 3-5). She was married to Álfr inn gamli ‘the Old’, jarl of Hordaland (Hǫrðaland), and was the sister of the district chieftain Hámundr inn frækni ‘the Bold’, the father of the two men named Hrókr ‘Rook’. Thus the ‘Stones’ were first cousins of the ‘Rooks’. The pers. n. Gunnlǫð is uncommon (Lind 1905-15, 416-17), but occurs in a mythological context in Hávm 105-10 and SnE (SnE 1998, I, 4) as the name of the daughter of the giant Suttungr, who allowed Óðinn to gain possession of the mead of poetry; cf. Steinþ Frag 1/2III and Note. It is also the name given to the daughter of Hrókr inn svarti and Brynhildr Hakadóttir (see Hálf 75, Note to [All]).
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[5-6]: Some eds have rearranged these lines, to conform better to the prose text, which mentions a Styrr hinn sterki ‘the Strong’ (Hálf 1981, 177, ch. 5, l. 17); Hálf 1864 has Styrr hinn sterki ok Steinar báðir, while Edd. Min. and Hálf 1909 have Styrr enn sterki, Steinar báðir, Hálf 1909 omitting the comma.
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