Hróksv Hrkv 17VIII (Hálf 67)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 67 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 17)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 357.
Vá ‘danger’
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1. vá (noun f.; °vár): woe, harm
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[1] vá ‘danger’: In the saga prose, ch. 5, it says: Vémundr hét merkismaðr Hálfs kóngs ‘Vémundr was the name of King Hálfr’s standard-bearer’ (Hálf 1981, 177, l. 15). Following Bugge (Hálf 1864), eds have taken heed of this, substituting the ms. reading vo with vé ‘standard’, construing ‘Vémundr … bore the standard before the prince’. However, there are two other places (Hálf 13/3 and 38/4) where ms. ‘vo’ represents vá ‘danger’ and it is thus preferable to retain the ms. reading Vémundr, er vega þorði, bar vá fyrir buðlungi ‘Vémundr, who dared to fight, endured danger for [or ‘before’] the prince’; cf. Björn K. Þórólfsson (1925, xi-xii).
bar ‘endured’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
Vémundr ‘Vémundr’
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Vémundr (noun m.): Vémundr
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
vega ‘to fight’
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1. vega (verb): strike, slay
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[2] vega ‘to fight’: Or ‘to kill’.
þorði ‘dared’
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þora (verb): dare
Björn ‘Bjǫrn’
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2. Bjǫrn (noun m.): Bjǫrn
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
Bersi ‘Bersi’
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Bersi (noun m.)
fyrir ‘for’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
buðlungi ‘the prince’
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buðlungr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, prince
Fylkði ‘drew up’
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fylkja (verb): marshal
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[5] fylkði ‘drew up’: From fylkja ‘draw up, assemble [troops]’. The verb is written fylgdí in 2845; cf. Hálf 21/2, where fylkja is written fylgía.
sínu ‘his’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
framligast ‘most excellently’
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framr (adj.; °compar. framari/fremri, superl. framastr/fremstr): outstanding, foremost
lofðungr ‘king’
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lofðungr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, leader
liði ‘troops’
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lið (noun n.; °-s; -): retinue, troop
meðan ‘as long as’
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meðan (conj.): while
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[8] meðan mátti lifa ‘as long as he lived’: Lit. ‘while he was allowed to live’.
lifa ‘lived’
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lifa (verb): live
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[8] meðan mátti lifa ‘as long as he lived’: Lit. ‘while he was allowed to live’.
mátti ‘he’
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mega (verb): may, might
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[8] meðan mátti lifa ‘as long as he lived’: Lit. ‘while he was allowed to live’.
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