Humli Lv 1VIII (Heiðr 100)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 100 (Humli konungr, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 472.
Sitja ‘sit’
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sitja (verb): sit
í ‘during’
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í (prep.): in, into
vetr ‘winter’
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vetr (noun m.; °vetrar/vetrs(HómHauksb³ 173²³), dat. vetri; vetr): winter
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
sælliga ‘prosperously’
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sælliga (adv.)
lifa ‘live’
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lifa (verb): live
drekka ‘drink’
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2. drekka (verb; °drekkr; drakk, drukku; drukkinn/drykkinn): drink
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
dæma ‘make conversation’
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dœma (verb; °-mð-): judge
[3] dæma: tæma corrected from dæma R715ˣ
dýrar ‘costly’
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dýrr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -str/-astr): precious
veigar ‘draughts’
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veig (noun f.): strong drink
kenna ‘teach’
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kenna (verb): know, teach
vápn ‘the weapons’
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vápn (noun n.; °-s; -): weapon
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
skulum ‘we shall’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
fram ‘forth’
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fram (adv.): out, forth, forwards, away
bera ‘carry’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
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Hlǫðr returns home and tells his maternal grandfather, King Humli, that he has been refused an equal division of the inheritance. Humli grows angry at his daughter’s son being called the son of a servant woman, and speaks the stanza.
[3]: The same line is found in Rþ 32/9, Sigsk 2/5 (both in the past tense) and Ǫrv 25/1 (in the 1st pers. pl. pret.). — [4]: The same line is found in Hyndl 50/6 and HHund II 46/2, and cf. Heiðr 97/2 fagrar veigar ‘fair draughts’. — [5-6]: Alliteration is lacking. To restore, all eds emend vápn ‘weapons’ to hervápn ‘war-weapons’, on the basis of a reading in Holm papp. 120, a ms. which is not of independent value (but cf. herlið ‘war-troop’ in Heiðr 101/2). However, the line is still unmetrical unless at ‘to’ is deleted. — [7-8]: Again, these lines lack alliteration. Skj B emends djarfliga ‘boldly’ to framliga (translating djærvt), with similar meaning. Heiðr 1873 offers frœknliga ‘valiantly’, followed by Edd. Min., FSGJ and Heiðr 1960, while Skald chooses to emend fram ‘forth’ in l. 8 to dramb ‘arrogance’. These conjectures are all unsupported by ms. evidence.
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