Anon (Heiðr) 1aVIII (Heiðr 18 [a])
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 18 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 1a)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 377.
Hitt ‘a’
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hitta (verb): meet, encounter
[1] Hitt hefir mær ung: mælti Hervarðr corrected from mæti Hervarð in the hand of JR R715ˣ
hefir ‘has met’
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hafa (verb): have
[1] Hitt hefir mær ung: mælti Hervarðr corrected from mæti Hervarð in the hand of JR R715ˣ
mær ‘woman’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
[1] Hitt hefir mær ung: mælti Hervarðr corrected from mæti Hervarð in the hand of JR R715ˣ
ung ‘The young’
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ungr (adj.): young
[1] Hitt hefir mær ung: mælti Hervarðr corrected from mæti Hervarð in the hand of JR R715ˣ
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
notes
[2] Munarvági ‘Munarvágr’: Lit. ‘Bay of Desire’. Also occurs in Heiðr 27/8 and Ǫrv 7/2. Always Una- (lit. ‘Bay of Delight’) or Unnar- (lit. ‘Bay of Waves’) in R715ˣ (except on one occasion when it is Munarheimr: see Note to Heiðr 27/8). The p. n. Unavágr also occurs in HHund I 31/1; see further Kommentar IV, 274, but, as noted by Jón Helgason (Heiðr 1924, lxviii), alliteration in the relevant stanzas of Heiðr and Ǫrv confirm that Munarvágr is the correct form here. The location of the bay on Samsø, if a real place was intended, has not been identified.
við ‘at’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
sólar ‘sun’
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sól (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): sun < sólarsetr (noun n.)
setr ‘set’
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setr (noun n.; °-s; -): seat, abode < sólarsetr (noun n.)
segg ‘man’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
[4] segg at hjörðu: snotr at máli corrected from settr máli in the hand of JR R715ˣ
at ‘tending’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
[4] segg at hjörðu: snotr at máli corrected from settr máli in the hand of JR R715ˣ
hjörðu ‘his flock’
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hjǫrð (noun f.; °hjarðar, dat. -/-u; hjarðir/hjarðar): herd
[4] segg at hjörðu: snotr at máli corrected from settr máli in the hand of JR R715ˣ
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The present half-stanza is third-person narrative in Hb, but put into the mouth of the shepherd in R715ˣ (see second Note to [All] below), introduced with Fjárhirðir kvað vísu ‘The shepherd recited a stanza’.
Ms. 2845 does not contain this half-stanza, but the prose immediately preceding Anon Heiðr 1b (Heiðr 18b) contains the same essentials and some of the diction, perhaps suggesting a basis in a verse original (Heiðr 1960, 12): Hervarðr … lendi í Munarvági í þann tíma, er sól settisk, ok hitti þar mann þann er hjǫrð helt ‘Hervarðr … landed in Munarvágr at the time when the sun was setting, and met there that man who tended a flock’. — While this half-stanza is third-person narrative in Hb, R715ˣ attributes it to the shepherd, presenting a variant which may be rendered as follows:
Mælti Hervarðr í Unnarvági
við solarsetr snotr at máli.
Prose order: Hervarðr mælti, snotr at máli, í Unnarvági við solarsetr. Translation: Hervarðr spoke, wise in speech, in Unnarvágr at sunset.
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