AngH Lv 10VIII (Heiðr 118)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 118 (Angantýr Heiðreksson, Lausavísur 10)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 486.
Bauð ‘offered’
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bjóða (verb; °býðr; bauð, buðu; boðinn (buð- Thom¹ 5²n.)): offer, order, invite
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
notes
[2] óskerðar basmir ‘undivided riches’: Both words are hap. leg. in poetry and clearly were not well understood by the scribes. All eds emend though NK retains R715ˣ’s ‘basnir’. Óskerðr ‘undivided’ is well attested in prose (cf. ONP: óskerðr), but basmir (f. pl.; sg. *bǫsm (?)) is otherwise unknown and the meaning is uncertain; Bugge (Heiðr 1873, 367) suggested it may refer to rings (see also AEW: basmir). On the suffixes in ‑m- rather than ‑n-, which are generally accepted, see NN §2378, which also posits a relation to OE basu ‘purple, crimson’, Sanskrit bhās ‘shine’. Heiðr 97/2 has here fagrar veigar ‘fair draughts’, but this has its own problems; see Note there.
notes
[2] óskerðar basmir ‘undivided riches’: Both words are hap. leg. in poetry and clearly were not well understood by the scribes. All eds emend though NK retains R715ˣ’s ‘basnir’. Óskerðr ‘undivided’ is well attested in prose (cf. ONP: óskerðr), but basmir (f. pl.; sg. *bǫsm (?)) is otherwise unknown and the meaning is uncertain; Bugge (Heiðr 1873, 367) suggested it may refer to rings (see also AEW: basmir). On the suffixes in ‑m- rather than ‑n-, which are generally accepted, see NN §2378, which also posits a relation to OE basu ‘purple, crimson’, Sanskrit bhās ‘shine’. Heiðr 97/2 has here fagrar veigar ‘fair draughts’, but this has its own problems; see Note there.
fé ‘wealth’
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fé (noun n.; °fjár/féar; -): cattle, money
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
fjölð ‘a multitude’
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fjǫlð (noun f.): multitude
sem ‘as’
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sem (conj.): as, which
fremst ‘was most’
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fremr (adv.)
tíddi ‘desirable’
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tíddr (adj./verb p.p.)
Nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
hefr ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
hvárki ‘neither’
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hvárki (conj.): neither
hildar ‘for battle’
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1. hildr (noun f.): battle
at ‘in’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
gjöldum ‘reward’
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gjald (noun n.): payment, reward, return
ljósa ‘bright’
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ljóss (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): bright
bauga ‘rings’
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baugr (noun m.; °dat. -i/-; -ar): ring
né ‘nor’
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né (conj.): nor
land ‘land’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
ekki ‘any’
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2. ekki (adv.): not
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Angantýr and his army march to Dúnheiðr and there is bitter fighting between the Goths and the Huns; a great many men are slain. After more than a week Angantýr comes to the forefront of the fighting (Heiðr 1960, 57), and skiptusk þeir brœðr hǫggum við ‘the brothers dealt blows against each other’, and Hlǫðr and King Humli are killed. Angantýr seeks out the body of his brother Hlǫðr, and speaks the stanza.
[1]: Ms. 203ˣ leaves a blank space after bróðir ‘brother’ to the end of the ms. line. — [1-4]: Echoes, with the exception of l. 2, Heiðr 97/1-4 (see Note there), where the same emendations need to be made to þik ‘you’ and meiðma ‘treasures’ (see Notes to those words).
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