AngH Lv 4VIII (Heiðr 97)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 97 (Angantýr Heiðreksson, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 469.
Manni ‘man’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
gef ‘will give’
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gefa (verb): give
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hverjum ‘to every’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
þiggja ‘receive’
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þiggja (verb): receive, get
annat ‘other’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
æðra ‘better’
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œðri (adj. comp.): nobler, higher
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[4] ráði á ‘could acquire’: The reading of R715ˣ is not certain (ms. ‘a̋ra̋di’) and the sense otherwise unattested, but deduced by Kock (FF §18, translated anskaffa, skaffa fram, hitta på ‘find, obtain, come upon, acquire’) by comparison with the attested ráða af, avskaffa, jöra slut på ‘do away with, put an end to’. Cf. Fritzner: ráða 24. This reading is adopted by Skald, NK and FSGJ and tentatively adopted here on the ground that it requires less emendation than the alternatives. Jón Helgason (1967, 228), followed by ÍF Edd., suggested árnaði, with similar meaning (‘could gain’). Heiðr 1924 suggests á at ráða, followed by Heiðr 1960, which translates ll. 3-4 ‘nobler than all that he now possesses’. Skj B’s suggestion, áðr nyti ‘enjoyed previously’, is based on 203ˣ but still requires emendation. Edd. Min.’s á kveði ‘could fix, determine’ and Heiðr 1873’s áðr á ‘owns previously’ are conjectural.
ráði ‘acquire’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
[4] á ráði: so R715ˣ, ‘a nÿdi’ 203ˣ
notes
[4] ráði á ‘could acquire’: The reading of R715ˣ is not certain (ms. ‘a̋ra̋di’) and the sense otherwise unattested, but deduced by Kock (FF §18, translated anskaffa, skaffa fram, hitta på ‘find, obtain, come upon, acquire’) by comparison with the attested ráða af, avskaffa, jöra slut på ‘do away with, put an end to’. Cf. Fritzner: ráða 24. This reading is adopted by Skald, NK and FSGJ and tentatively adopted here on the ground that it requires less emendation than the alternatives. Jón Helgason (1967, 228), followed by ÍF Edd., suggested árnaði, with similar meaning (‘could gain’). Heiðr 1924 suggests á at ráða, followed by Heiðr 1960, which translates ll. 3-4 ‘nobler than all that he now possesses’. Skj B’s suggestion, áðr nyti ‘enjoyed previously’, is based on 203ˣ but still requires emendation. Edd. Min.’s á kveði ‘could fix, determine’ and Heiðr 1873’s áðr á ‘owns previously’ are conjectural.
Mey ‘a girl’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hverjum ‘to every’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
manni ‘man’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
[6] manni: ‘mani’ corrected from margt (struck through) in the margin in another hand R715ˣ
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
þiggja ‘receive’
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þiggja (verb): receive, get
men ‘a necklace’
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2. men (noun n.; °; dat. menjum): neck-ring
[7] men: meyju 203ˣ, ‘mæn’ or ‘mæu’ R715ˣ
spenni ‘will clasp’
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2. spenna (verb): span, surround
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
meyju ‘girl’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
[8] meyju: men 203ˣ, meiri R715ˣ
at ‘around’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
hálsi ‘the neck’
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hals (noun m.; °hals, dat. -i; -ar): neck
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[7-8]: Ms. 203ˣ has the words men ‘necklace’ and meyju ‘girl’ reversed (which produces the same meaning), but R715ˣ’s garbled version suggests the order presented here, which has the additional advantages of being metrically better and supported by the pattern of the previous two lines. The emendation is also made by Skj B, Skald, FSGJ and Edd. Min.
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