Herv Lv 15VIII (Heiðr 38)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 38 (Hervǫr, Lausavísur 15)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 398.
Maðr ‘being’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
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[1-2] mennskr maðr ‘a human being’: Plays on Angantýr’s Kveðkat ek þik ... mönnum líka ‘I would not declare you ... to be like humans’ in ll. 1-2 of the previous stanza.
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[1] ek: þú corrected from þú mjök in the hand of JR R715ˣ
mennskr ‘a human’
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mennskr (adj.): [among human]
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[1-2] mennskr maðr ‘a human being’: Plays on Angantýr’s Kveðkat ek þik ... mönnum líka ‘I would not declare you ... to be like humans’ in ll. 1-2 of the previous stanza.
þessa ‘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
[2] þessa: so 2845, ‘þersa’ Hb, forna corrected from þessa in the margin in the hand of JR R715ˣ
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
sali ‘halls’
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1. salr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; dat. sǫlum): hall
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[3] sali ‘halls’: I.e. Angantýr’s grave-mound; see Note to Heiðr 14/3.
yðra ‘your’
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yðvarr (pron.; °f. yður; pl. yðrir): your
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[4] réðak sækja ‘I resolved to seek’: Ms. R715ˣ’s reading, tók kanna ‘I resolved to investigate’, has basically the same sense but lacks alliteration.
réðak ‘resolved’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
[4] réðak: hafðak 2845, kanna R715ˣ
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[4] réðak sækja ‘I resolved to seek’: Ms. R715ˣ’s reading, tók kanna ‘I resolved to investigate’, has basically the same sense but lacks alliteration.
Selðu ‘Give’
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4. selja (verb): hand over, sell, give
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
ór ‘from’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
haugi ‘the mound’
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haugr (noun m.; °-s, -i; -ar): mound, cairn
þann ‘that’
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[6] þann er hatar brynjur ‘that which hates mail-shirts’: I.e., destroys mail-shirts. This is not structurally a kenning, but cf. GSúrs Lv 19/7V (Gísl) hatr brynju ‘the hatred of the mail-shirt [SWORD]’. The verb hata can mean both ‘hate’ and ‘destroy, damage’, either of which is appropriate here. The eds of CPB (CPB, I, 165) replace this line with hvassan mæki ‘the sharp sword’, which in the present edn occurs in Heiðr 25/6 and 40/3.
er ‘which’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
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[6] þann er hatar brynjur ‘that which hates mail-shirts’: I.e., destroys mail-shirts. This is not structurally a kenning, but cf. GSúrs Lv 19/7V (Gísl) hatr brynju ‘the hatred of the mail-shirt [SWORD]’. The verb hata can mean both ‘hate’ and ‘destroy, damage’, either of which is appropriate here. The eds of CPB (CPB, I, 165) replace this line with hvassan mæki ‘the sharp sword’, which in the present edn occurs in Heiðr 25/6 and 40/3.
hatar ‘hates’
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hata (verb): hate
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[6] þann er hatar brynjur ‘that which hates mail-shirts’: I.e., destroys mail-shirts. This is not structurally a kenning, but cf. GSúrs Lv 19/7V (Gísl) hatr brynju ‘the hatred of the mail-shirt [SWORD]’. The verb hata can mean both ‘hate’ and ‘destroy, damage’, either of which is appropriate here. The eds of CPB (CPB, I, 165) replace this line with hvassan mæki ‘the sharp sword’, which in the present edn occurs in Heiðr 25/6 and 40/3.
brynjur ‘mail-shirts’
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1. brynja (noun f.; °-u (dat. brynnoni Gibb 38⁹); -ur): mailcoat
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[6] þann er hatar brynjur ‘that which hates mail-shirts’: I.e., destroys mail-shirts. This is not structurally a kenning, but cf. GSúrs Lv 19/7V (Gísl) hatr brynju ‘the hatred of the mail-shirt [SWORD]’. The verb hata can mean both ‘hate’ and ‘destroy, damage’, either of which is appropriate here. The eds of CPB (CPB, I, 165) replace this line with hvassan mæki ‘the sharp sword’, which in the present edn occurs in Heiðr 25/6 and 40/3.
smíði ‘smith-craft’
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2. smíði (noun n.; °-s; -): well-made, -crafted
[7] smíði: hættan 2845
notes
[7] smíði dverga ‘smith-craft of dwarfs’: See Notes to Heiðr 25/6-8 and 28/8.
dugira ‘it will not help’
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duga (verb; °dugir; dugði; dugat): help, befit
[8] dugira þér (‘dvgeræ þer’): Hjálmars bana 2845, dugir þér ei R715ˣ
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[7-8]: Ms. 2845 has here ll. 7-8 of the problematic Heiðr 36, a stanza otherwise omitted in that ms. Tolkien (Heiðr 1960, 79) suggests 2845’s reading could be closer to the original arrangement, because of the echoing of Hjálmars bani in l. 2 of the following stanza (Heiðr 39). The eds of Edd. Min. also prefer 2845’s reading for the present stanza. However, Hb and R715ˣ, with some minor variations, agree on the arrangement followed here.
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[8] dugira þér (‘dvgeræ þer’): Hjálmars bana 2845, dugir þér ei R715ˣ
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