Angantýr Lv 8VIII (Heiðr 41)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 41 (Angantýr Arngrímsson, Lausavísur 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 401.
Heimsk ‘foolish’
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heimskr (adj.; °comp. -ari, superl. -astr): foolish
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[1] heimsk ‘foolish’: The word derives from heimr ‘home’ and implies inexperience or naivety (AEW, LT: heimskr). Cf. Heiðr 22/1, in which Hervǫr is described as heimskr (with the masculine inflection, since she is disguised as a man) by the shepherd. In Skj B Finnur emends to heimsks, to agree with hugar, and construes Et dumt sind har du ‘You have a foolish mind’ (though in LP: 2. eiga 8 he gives hugar eigandi and translates as modig mand ‘a brave man’, as Kock points out in NN §2375). Emendation is unnecessary, however, since the text makes sense as it stands.
ertu ‘You are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
Hervör ‘Hervǫr’
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Hervǫr (noun f.)
hugar ‘of courage’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage
eigandi ‘in possession’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
er ‘since’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
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[3-4] þú hrapar í eld at augum ‘you rush into the fire with your eyes open’: Idiomatic expression.
at ‘with’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
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[3-4] þú hrapar í eld at augum ‘you rush into the fire with your eyes open’: Idiomatic expression.
augum ‘eyes open’
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auga (noun n.; °auga; augu/augun, gen. augna): eye
[3] augum: ‘augunn’ R715ˣ
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[3-4] þú hrapar í eld at augum ‘you rush into the fire with your eyes open’: Idiomatic expression.
í ‘into’
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í (prep.): in, into
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[3-4] þú hrapar í eld at augum ‘you rush into the fire with your eyes open’: Idiomatic expression.
eld ‘the fire’
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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire
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[3-4] þú hrapar í eld at augum ‘you rush into the fire with your eyes open’: Idiomatic expression.
hrapar ‘rush’
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hrapa (verb): [tumble down, rush]
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[3-4] þú hrapar í eld at augum ‘you rush into the fire with your eyes open’: Idiomatic expression.
vil ‘will’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
[5] Heldr vil ek: so 2845, R715ˣ, ek vil heldr Hb
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[5] Heldr vil ek: so 2845, R715ˣ, ek vil heldr Hb
notes
[5-6] selja þér sverð ‘give you the sword’: Skj B and Skald reverse the order of selja and sverð, which is the reading of R715ˣ, and avoid the heavy anacrusis in the B-line. This is not necessary, however, and the verbal echo in the following stanza perhaps indicates that the order retained here is original, and aesthetically preferable.
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
notes
[5-6] selja þér sverð ‘give you the sword’: Skj B and Skald reverse the order of selja and sverð, which is the reading of R715ˣ, and avoid the heavy anacrusis in the B-line. This is not necessary, however, and the verbal echo in the following stanza perhaps indicates that the order retained here is original, and aesthetically preferable.
notes
[5-6] selja þér sverð ‘give you the sword’: Skj B and Skald reverse the order of selja and sverð, which is the reading of R715ˣ, and avoid the heavy anacrusis in the B-line. This is not necessary, however, and the verbal echo in the following stanza perhaps indicates that the order retained here is original, and aesthetically preferable.
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
mær ‘woman’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
[7] mær in: ‘mærinn’ 2845
unga ‘young’
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ungr (adj.): young
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[8] ek mákat synja þér ‘I cannot refuse you’: Ms. R715ˣ has here mun ek þik ei leyna ‘I will not hide (it) from you’.
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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[8] ek mákat synja þér ‘I cannot refuse you’: Ms. R715ˣ has here mun ek þik ei leyna ‘I will not hide (it) from you’.
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[8] þér: þér ei 2845, þik ei R715ˣ
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[8] ek mákat synja þér ‘I cannot refuse you’: Ms. R715ˣ has here mun ek þik ei leyna ‘I will not hide (it) from you’.
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[8] ek mákat synja þér ‘I cannot refuse you’: Ms. R715ˣ has here mun ek þik ei leyna ‘I will not hide (it) from you’.
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[1-2]: Kock (NN §2375) draws a contrast between these lines and Hamð 27/1-2 (NK 273): hug hefðir þú, Hamðir, | ef þu hefðir hyggiandi ‘you would have had courage, Hamðir, if you had wisdom’.
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