Anon (Heiðr) 5VIII (Heiðr 86)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 86 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 453.
Þess ‘for’
[1] Þess: þá R715ˣ, þessa 203ˣ
hon ‘The’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
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[1] gedda ‘pike’: Esox lucius.
fyr ‘in front of’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
Grafár ‘of the Grafá’
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Grafá (noun f.)
[2] Grafár: ‘grafarr’ 2845, ‘Gropar’ R715ˣ, ‘Greipar’ 203ˣ
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[2] Grafár ‘of the Grafá’: This river has not been identified.
ósi ‘the mouth’
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óss (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): estuary, mouth
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
und ‘under’
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath
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[4] und Harvaðafjöllum ‘under Harvaðafjǫll’: The Carpathian mountains, the largest mountain range in Europe, form an arc of c. 1500 km from the Czech Republic, through Slovakia, Poland, the Ukraine and Romania, to the Iron Gates gorge on the River Danube at the border between Romania and Serbia. The Old Norse word is regularly formed from the root karpat- via Grimm’s Law, but the p. n. is not otherwise attested in its Germanic form (Heiðr 1960, xxiii and n. 2).
Harvaða ‘Harvaða’
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(unlinked proper noun) < Harvaðafjǫll (noun n.)
[4] Harvaða‑: with æ written above the first a 2845, ‘hauada’ R715ˣ, ‘ha̋rvada’ 203ˣ
notes
[4] und Harvaðafjöllum ‘under Harvaðafjǫll’: The Carpathian mountains, the largest mountain range in Europe, form an arc of c. 1500 km from the Czech Republic, through Slovakia, Poland, the Ukraine and Romania, to the Iron Gates gorge on the River Danube at the border between Romania and Serbia. The Old Norse word is regularly formed from the root karpat- via Grimm’s Law, but the p. n. is not otherwise attested in its Germanic form (Heiðr 1960, xxiii and n. 2).
fjöllum ‘fjǫll’
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1. fjall (noun n.): mountain < Harvaðafjǫll (noun n.)
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[4] und Harvaðafjöllum ‘under Harvaðafjǫll’: The Carpathian mountains, the largest mountain range in Europe, form an arc of c. 1500 km from the Czech Republic, through Slovakia, Poland, the Ukraine and Romania, to the Iron Gates gorge on the River Danube at the border between Romania and Serbia. The Old Norse word is regularly formed from the root karpat- via Grimm’s Law, but the p. n. is not otherwise attested in its Germanic form (Heiðr 1960, xxiii and n. 2).
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Heiðrekr’s son, Angantýr, on a quest to find his father’s killers, encounters three fishermen on the river Grafá. Upon catching a fish, one of them uses a sword to cut off its head and recites this stanza, unwittingly revealing to Angantýr that the sword is Tyrfingr and the fisherman is one of Heiðrekr’s killers. After nightfall Angantýr kills all the assailants and takes back Tyrfingr.
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