Ormarr Lv 4VIII (Heiðr 105)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 105 (Ormarr, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 476.
Léttari ‘more at ease’
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léttr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): easy, light
[1] Léttari: ‘Littare’ 203ˣ, om. R715ˣ
gerðiz ‘became’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
hon ‘She’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
en ‘than’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
biðil ‘a suitor’
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biðill (noun m.; °dat. biðli; biðlar): [suitor, wooer]
ræða ‘talking’
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2. rœða (verb): utter, speak
bekk ‘the bench’
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1. bekkr (noun m.; °-jar/-s, dat. -/-i; -ir): bench
[3] eða í bekk at fara: ‘ad leik j sar̄a’ R715ˣ
at ‘with’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
[3] eða í bekk at fara: ‘ad leik j sar̄a’ R715ˣ
fara ‘going’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
[3] eða í bekk at fara: ‘ad leik j sar̄a’ R715ˣ
brúðar ‘the bridal’
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brúðr (noun f.; °brúðar, dat. & acc. brúði; brúðir): woman, bride < brúðargangr (noun m.)
[4] brúðar‑: lundr R715ˣ
notes
[4] brúðargangi ‘the bridal procession’: Though Tolkien (Heiðr 1960, 54 n. 2) confidently explains, ‘the brúðargangr was the procession of the bride and ladies from the brúðarhús (bride’s chamber) to the stofa [main room] ... for the feast’, the word is not attested in Old Norse (either as a cpd or its separate components, cf. ONP: brúðr), though it is in later Icelandic (OHá: brúðargangur).
gangi ‘procession’
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gangr (noun m.): going, walking; course; success < brúðargangr (noun m.)
[4] ‑gangi: gengu R715ˣ
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[4] brúðargangi ‘the bridal procession’: Though Tolkien (Heiðr 1960, 54 n. 2) confidently explains, ‘the brúðargangr was the procession of the bride and ladies from the brúðarhús (bride’s chamber) to the stofa [main room] ... for the feast’, the word is not attested in Old Norse (either as a cpd or its separate components, cf. ONP: brúðr), though it is in later Icelandic (OHá: brúðargangur).
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[1]: ÍF Edd. emends to lútari ‘more inclined’. — [3-4]: The mss have different readings here, and neither version is completely satisfactory. Kock (Skald; FF §19), possibly following Heiðr 1672 (which however does not offer a translation), emends R715ˣ’s problematic reading to ad leiki sara | en ad lundar geingu ‘to the play of wounds [BATTLE], than to the journey to the grove’. NK also follows R715ˣ, emending to at leic ísarna | enn at lundar gǫngo ‘to the play of irons [BATTLE], than to the journey to the grove’. Either conjectured battle-kenning would be the only kenning in the group of stanzas about the Huns and Goths, though that fact does not make it an impossible occurrence here, especially given the relative infrequency of kennings in non-skaldic metres.
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