Anon (Heiðr) 4VIII (Heiðr 24)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 24 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 383.
Var ‘’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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[1, 2] var þá mjök fljótr ‘then fled quickly’: Lit. ‘was then very fast’.
þá ‘then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
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[1, 2] var þá mjök fljótr ‘then fled quickly’: Lit. ‘was then very fast’.
fé ‘The shep’
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fé (noun n.; °fjár/féar; -): cattle, money < féhirðir (noun m.)
fljótr ‘quickly’
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2. fljótr (adj.): quick
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[1, 2] var þá mjök fljótr ‘then fled quickly’: Lit. ‘was then very fast’.
til ‘towards’
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til (prep.): to
skógar ‘the forest’
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skógr (noun m.; °-ar/-s, dat. -i; -ar): forest
mjök ‘fled’
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mjǫk (adv.): very, much
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[1, 2] var þá mjök fljótr ‘then fled quickly’: Lit. ‘was then very fast’.
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
máli ‘the speech’
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1. mál (noun n.; °-s; -): speech, matter
meyjar ‘girl’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
þessar ‘of this’
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1. sjá (pron.; °gen. þessa dat. þessum/þeima, acc. þenna; f. sjá/þessi; n. þetta, dat. þessu/þvísa; pl. þessir): this
en ‘but’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
harð ‘the stead’
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harðr (adj.; °comp. -ari; superl. -astr): hard, harsh < harðsnúinn (adj./verb p.p.)
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[5] harðsnúinn ‘steadfast’: Lit. ‘hard-turned’.
snúinn ‘fast’
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-snúinn (adj.): [twisted] < harðsnúinn (adj./verb p.p.)
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[5] harðsnúinn ‘steadfast’: Lit. ‘hard-turned’.
hugr ‘heart’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
brjósti ‘the breast’
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brjóst (noun n.; °-s; -): breast, chest
um ‘because’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
sakar ‘of such’
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sǫk (noun f.; °sakar; sakar/sakir): cause, offence
slíkar ‘things’
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2. slíkr (adj.): such
svellr ‘swells’
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1. svella (verb): swell
Hervöru ‘of Hervǫr’
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Hervǫr (noun f.)
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The H redaction places this stanza after Herv Lv 6 (Heiðr 21), but it must come after the dialogue between Hervǫr and the shepherd, not part way through. — The U redaction (which has slight variants) has this stanza spoken by the shepherd, with the prose introduction, Féhirðir … tók til hlaupa sem mest mátti hann … ok kvað þetta ‘The shepherd … took to his heels as fast as he could … and recited this’. The stanza is clearly meant to be third-person narrative rather than speech, however. — Edd. Min. prints this stanza only in the notes.
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