Anon (Heiðr) 3VIII (Heiðr 22)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 22 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 382.
Heimskr ‘foolish’
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heimskr (adj.; °comp. -ari, superl. -astr): foolish
notes
[1] heimskr ‘foolish’: Hervǫr is again described as heimskr in Angantýr Lv 8/1 (Heiðr 41), on that occasion by her father, Angantýr.
þykki ‘He seems’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
mér ‘to me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
sá ‘that one’
[2] sá: so 2845, R715ˣ, þá Hb
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
ferr ‘travels’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
einn ‘alone’
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1. einn (num. cardinal; °f. ein, n. eitt; pl. einir; superl. debil. -asti(Anna238(2001) 155³²)): one; alone
[3] maðr einn saman: ‘all ein saman’ R715ˣ
myrkvar ‘murky’
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2. myrkr (adj.; °-an/-jan/-van; compar. -(v)ari/-ri, superl. -(v)astr): dark, murky
[4] myrkvar: dökkvar R715ˣ
notes
[4] myrkvar grímur ‘in the murky night’: Lit. ‘in the murky nights’, acc. pl. of the passage of time. The reading of R715ˣ, dökkvar grímur ‘in the dark night’, makes sense but lacks alliteration. The sense ‘night’ for gríma is poetic (cf. Þul Dœgra 1/3III and Note); otherwise the term refers to a hood, face-covering or mask, or armour for a horse’s upper body (LP, CVC: gríma).
grímur ‘night’
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gríma (noun f.; °-u): night, darkness; mask
notes
[4] myrkvar grímur ‘in the murky night’: Lit. ‘in the murky nights’, acc. pl. of the passage of time. The reading of R715ˣ, dökkvar grímur ‘in the dark night’, makes sense but lacks alliteration. The sense ‘night’ for gríma is poetic (cf. Þul Dœgra 1/3III and Note); otherwise the term refers to a hood, face-covering or mask, or armour for a horse’s upper body (LP, CVC: gríma).
Hyrr ‘Fire’
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hyrr (noun m.): fire
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
notes
[5] á sveimun ‘flickering’: Hap. leg. Cf. the verb sveima ‘wander, move without fixed direction’.
notes
[5] á sveimun ‘flickering’: Hap. leg. Cf. the verb sveima ‘wander, move without fixed direction’.
haugar ‘mounds’
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haugr (noun m.; °-s, -i; -ar): mound, cairn
notes
[6] haugar opnaz ‘mounds open’: I.e. the burial mounds of Angantýr and his brothers. See Angantýr Lv 1 (Heiðr 29), Note to [All]. This line is also found in Angantýr Lv 3/2 (Heiðr 32), in a stanza which also mentions the fires burning on the island and warns Hervǫr to return to her ships.
opnaz ‘open’
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2. opna (verb): [to open]
notes
[6] haugar opnaz ‘mounds open’: I.e. the burial mounds of Angantýr and his brothers. See Angantýr Lv 1 (Heiðr 29), Note to [All]. This line is also found in Angantýr Lv 3/2 (Heiðr 32), in a stanza which also mentions the fires burning on the island and warns Hervǫr to return to her ships.
brennr ‘burns’
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2. brenna (verb; °brennr/brenn; brann, brunnu; brunninn): (strong, intransitive)
[7] brennr: brenn 2845
fold ‘the earth’
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fold (noun f.): land
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
fen ‘the fen’
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fen (noun n.; °-s; -): fen
förum ‘let us go’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
harðara ‘faster’
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harðr (adj.; °comp. -ari; superl. -astr): hard, harsh
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