Hjþ Lv 5VIII (HjǪ 11)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 11 (Hjálmþér Ingason, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 503.
Hvert ‘Who’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
notes
[1] bákn ‘monster’: This is the sense both here and in Anon (Vǫlsa) 12/8I, where the noun is used of the embalmed horse’s penis, Vǫlsi. Elsewhere the term is only recorded in the cpd sigrbákn ‘victory beacon’ (ÍF 23, 243; Andersson and Gade 2000, 440), where the context clearly indicates its status as a foreign expression. Here the basic sense of bákn is ‘beacon, signal’, as in other Germanic languages (cf. AEW, Fritzner: bákn; cf. OE bēacen ‘sign, portent’). The simplex is not recorded in ONP, though the verb bákna ‘give a sign’ is probably related. Ms. ÍBR5ˣ’s reading barn ‘child’ is not recorded in Skj A, but appears firm, though interpretation depends on the mark of abbreviation used for the middle two letters. Barn is inappropriate in context, unless used ironically.
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
í ‘on’
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í (prep.): in, into
bjargi ‘the rock’
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bjarg (noun n.; °-s; *-): mountain, cliff
sitr ‘sits’
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sitja (verb): sit
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
sér ‘looks’
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2. sjá (verb): see
konungs ‘the king’s’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
[3] konungs: konung ÍBR5ˣ
Enga ‘no female’
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2. engi (pron.): no, none
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
ámátligri ‘more loathsome’
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ámáttligr (adj.; °compar. -ri, superl. -astr): [mighty]
alna ‘born’
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ala (verb; °elr; ól, ólu; alinn): to beget, produce, procreate
[6] alna: alda all
notes
[6] alna ‘born’: All mss have alda ‘of men’, gen. pl. of ǫld ‘humans, men’. This would produce a possible meaning, though slightly awkward, viz. Ek veit enga alda fyr jörð ofan ámátligri þér ‘I know no female among people on the face of the earth more loathsome than you’. Earlier eds (HjǪ 1720, FSN) retain alda, while Skj B, Skald and FSGJ have alna.
fyrir ‘on’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
jörð ‘of the earth’
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jǫrð (noun f.; °jarðar, dat. -u; jarðir/jarðar(DN I (1367) 304)): ground, earth
ofan ‘the face’
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ofan (adv.): down
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Noticing a huge sea-ogress, Ýma, standing in the middle of a high mountain, Hjálmþér asks her name challengingly.
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