Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 65 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 15)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 355.
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Valr (noun m.; °; -ir): Valr, ?horse
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
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Haukr (noun m.)
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í (prep.): in, into
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víking (noun f.; °dat./acc. -/-u): viking journey
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báðir (pron.; °gen. beggja (báðra), nom./acc. n. bǽði): both
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frœkn (adj.): brave, bold
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buðlungr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, prince
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vinr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/(-i OsvReyk 92.17); -ir): friend
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
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munu (verb): will, must
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fylkir (noun m.): leader
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rekkr (noun m.; °; -ar): man, champion
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2. hœfa (verb): hit, suit, befit
[7] hæfir ‘to match’: From the adj. hæfr ‘fit, proper, useful’. Hálf 1864 and later eds emend to hæfri ‘braver [than]’.
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
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3. ór (prep.): out of
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Hakaveldi (noun n.): [Haki realm]
[8] Hakaveldi ‘Haki’s realm’: Similar to such compounds as Danaveldi ‘the realm of the Danes’ (cf. ÞjóðA Magn 12/4III and Note), although defined in this instance by the control over territory of one man rather than an ethnic group, the term Hakaveldi refers to the realm controlled by King Haki, who is said in the prose text of Hálf to rule over the province of Skåne, which was part of greater Denmark in the Middle Ages.
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