AngH Lv 1VIII (Heiðr 93)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 93 (Angantýr Heiðreksson, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 462.
Heill ‘Wel’
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1. heill (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): good fortune
kom ‘come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
Hlöðr ‘Hlǫðr’
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Hlǫðr (noun m.): Hlǫðr
Heiðreks ‘of Heiðrekr’
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Heiðrekr (noun m.): Heiðrekr
arfi ‘heir’
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arfi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): heir, heiress
[2] arfi: ‘fedurz’ corrected from ‘feduz’ in another hand R715ˣ
notes
[2] arfi ‘heir’: The ms. reading is assumed to be intended to be föðurs ‘father’s’ (Skj A; Heiðr 1672), but that reading would not make sense, since Hlǫðr is Heiðrekr’s son, not the other way round. NK and ÍF Edd. emend the line to Heiðreki fœddr ‘born of Heiðrekr’. The emendation followed here, proposed in Skj B and taken up in Skald and Heiðr 1960, is taken from Anon (Heiðr) 8/2 (Heiðr 89); cf. Anon (Heiðr) 10/2 (Heiðr 91) and Note.
minn ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
gakk ‘go’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
á ‘to’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
bekk ‘on the bench’
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1. bekkr (noun m.; °-jar/-s, dat. -/-i; -ir): bench
sitja ‘sit’
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sitja (verb): sit
Drekkum ‘Let us drink’
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2. drekka (verb; °drekkr; drakk, drukku; drukkinn/drykkinn): drink
Heiðreks ‘of Heiðrekr’
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Heiðrekr (noun m.): Heiðrekr
hollar ‘offered with good will’
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hollr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): loyal
veigar ‘draughts’
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veig (noun f.): strong drink
föður ‘father’
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faðir (noun m.): father
okkrum ‘for our’
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okkarr (pron.; °f. okkur; pl. okkrir): our
fyrstum ‘the first’
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1. fyrri (adj. comp.; °superl. fyrstr): first
manna ‘of men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
vín ‘wine’
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vín (noun n.; °-s; -): wine
eða ‘or’
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eða (conj.): or
mjöð ‘mead’
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mjǫðr (noun m.; °dat. miði): mead
hvárt ‘whichever’
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hvárt (adv.): whether
þér ‘to you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
valdara ‘preferable’
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valdr (adj.): power
notes
[10] valdara ‘preferable’: Comparative of valdr or valiðr, p. p. of velja ‘choose’ (cf. Jón Helgason 1967, 222-3). Heiðr 1672 retains the ms. reading, as here, but most eds emend to vildara ‘more desirable’, which has similar meaning but is an unnecessary change.
þykkir ‘seems’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
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See Context for previous stanza. Since that stanza is not included in R715ˣ, the present one follows directly from the prose that introduces Heiðr 92 in the R redaction.
The content of this stanza is related in prose in the R redaction, and it is omitted from Edd. Min. 2-3 n. 5 on the grounds that die nicht alt sein können ‘they [the lines] cannot be old’. The stanza is metrically irregular, with ll. 1-2, 4-6 and 8 regular fornyrðislag, ll. 3, 7 and 9 hypometrical and l. 10 hypermetrical, a fact that could point to late composition. However, Love (2013, 159-60) argues on the principle of Occam’s razor that it is more likely that an original stanza was recast into prose in R than original prose was recast into ‘novel poetry’ in U. Tolkien (Heiðr 1960, 83) feels that ‘a distinction between “old” and “late” may be misleading if pressed’.
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