Ormarr Lv 3VIII (Heiðr 104)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 104 (Ormarr, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 476.
Mey ‘girl’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
veit ‘know’
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1. vita (verb): know
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
Heiðreks ‘Heiðrekr’s’
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Heiðrekr (noun m.): Heiðrekr
… ‘…’
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systur ‘sister’
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systir (noun f.; °systur; systur): sister
þína ‘your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
notes
[4] svigna ‘to have sunk’: Lit. ‘sunk’. Svigna is an inflected (f. acc. sg.) p. p. of the first class strong verb *svíga ‘sink’, which is only attested in the p. p. The construction is acc.-inf.
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
jarðar ‘the earth’
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jǫrð (noun f.; °jarðar, dat. -u; jarðir/jarðar(DN I (1367) 304)): ground, earth
Hafa ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
Húnar ‘The Huns’
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húnir (noun m.): Huns
hana ‘her’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
felda ‘felled’
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3. fella (verb): fell, kill
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
marga ‘many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
aðra ‘others’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
þegna ‘men’
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þegn (noun m.; °dat. -/-i; -ar): thane, man, franklin
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[2]: Metrically, there must be something missing here, but neither ms. gives any indication either of what it may be or of a gap. All previous eds have made suggestions, but all are conjecture.
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