Angantýr Lv 5VIII (Heiðr 35)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 35 (Angantýr Arngrímsson, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 395.
Muntu ‘You will’
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munu (verb): will, must
son ‘son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
geta ‘give birth to’
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2. geta (verb): to beget, give birth to, mention, speak of; to think well of, like, love
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
Tyrfing ‘Tyrfingr’
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tyrfingr (noun m.): [sword]
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
trúa ‘trust’
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2. trúa (verb): to believe (in)
notes
[4] magni ‘might’: Hb’s reading, afli ‘power’, is also acceptable but in the minority.
Heiðrek ‘Heiðrekr’
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Heiðrekr (noun m.): Heiðrekr
heita ‘call’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
lýðar ‘People’
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
ríkstr ‘most powerful’
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ríkr (adj.): mighty, powerful, rich
alinn ‘born’
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ala (verb; °elr; ól, ólu; alinn): to beget, produce, procreate
röðuls ‘of the sun’
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rǫðull (noun m.; °dat. rǫðli): heavenly body
kennings
tjaldi röðuls.‘the tent of the sun. ’
= SKY/HEAVEN
the tent of the sun. → SKY/HEAVEN
tjaldi ‘the tent’
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tjald (noun n.; °-s; *-): tent, awning
kennings
tjaldi röðuls.‘the tent of the sun. ’
= SKY/HEAVEN
the tent of the sun. → SKY/HEAVEN
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Angantýr’s prophecy is fulfilled later in the saga when Hervǫr has a son, Heiðrekr, with Hǫfundr, son of King Guðmundr of Glasisvellir (on the latter see further Heiðr 1960, 84-6); Heiðrekr becomes a powerful and wealthy king through marriage alliances, inheritance and his own war-making.
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