HervH Lv 2VIII (HjǪ 24)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 24 (Hervǫr Hundingjadóttir, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 517.
Allt ‘Everything’
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allr (adj.): all
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[1] allt ferr eptir einu ‘everything goes in the same way’: Lit. ‘in one [way]’. Most likely a proverbial utterance; cf. LP: fara 6, and cf. Guðmundur Jónsson (1830, 32): Allt fer einhvörnvegin.
ferr ‘goes’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
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[1] allt ferr eptir einu ‘everything goes in the same way’: Lit. ‘in one [way]’. Most likely a proverbial utterance; cf. LP: fara 6, and cf. Guðmundur Jónsson (1830, 32): Allt fer einhvörnvegin.
eptir ‘in the ’
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eptir (prep.): after, behind
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[1] allt ferr eptir einu ‘everything goes in the same way’: Lit. ‘in one [way]’. Most likely a proverbial utterance; cf. LP: fara 6, and cf. Guðmundur Jónsson (1830, 32): Allt fer einhvörnvegin.
einu ‘same way’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
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[1] allt ferr eptir einu ‘everything goes in the same way’: Lit. ‘in one [way]’. Most likely a proverbial utterance; cf. LP: fara 6, and cf. Guðmundur Jónsson (1830, 32): Allt fer einhvörnvegin.
er ‘…’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
margs ‘’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
vita ‘’
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1. vita (verb): know
frægra ‘’
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frægr (adj.; °-jan/-an; compar. -ri, superl. -jastr/-astr/-str): famous, renowned
[2] frægra: om. ÍBR5ˣ
vina ‘’
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vinr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/(-i OsvReyk 92.17); -ir): friend
[3] vina: vinum corrected from vina in another hand papp6ˣ
list ‘’
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list (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): skill, art, virtue
[3] list: list with ‑ir written above the line in another hand papp6ˣ, lits ÍBR5ˣ
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
[4] af Nistils fólki: ok vala tafni fæþa corrected from af nistils folka or falka above the line in another hand papp6ˣ
Nistils ‘of Nistill’
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nistill (noun m.)
[4] af Nistils fólki: ok vala tafni fæþa corrected from af nistils folka or falka above the line in another hand papp6ˣ
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[4] Nistils ‘of Nistill’: Derived from nist m. ‘brooch, pin’, the noun is a diminutive, usually referring to a woman, sometimes to a man, familiar in rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8, 277). Here, however, it appears to be used as a pers. n. in an application that is unclear.
fólki ‘the people’
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folk (noun n.): people
[4] af Nistils fólki: ok vala tafni fæþa corrected from af nistils folka or falka above the line in another hand papp6ˣ
Fyrr ‘sooner’
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fyrr (adv.): before, sooner
skyldir ‘ought’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
þú ‘You’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
hanga ‘to hang’
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1. hanga (verb): hang
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
hávum ‘the high’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
gálga ‘gallows’
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galgi (noun m.): gallows
en ‘than’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
glaumtigum ‘…’
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glaumtigr (noun m.): ?
[7] glaumtigum: ‘glaumtyum’ papp6ˣ, ‘glantygium’ ÍBR5ˣ
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[7] †glaumtigum† ‘…’: All mss have difficulty with whatever word or words underlie this form. It is probably related in some way to the noun glaumr ‘noise, revelry, merriment’, and it seems clear that Hervǫr is warning the heroes not to enter her father’s hall on any account. Most eds have emended the line to en í glaum inn ganga (Skj B), en í glaum inn at ganga (Skald) or en í glauminn ganga (FSGJ).
gakk ‘go’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
[8] gakk þú: so ÍBR5ˣ, gakk þá 109a IIIˣ, gakktu papp6ˣ
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[8] gakk þú ei hóti framar ‘do not go one bit further’: Cf. HjǪ 19/1.
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[8] gakk þú: so ÍBR5ˣ, gakk þá 109a IIIˣ, gakktu papp6ˣ
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[8] gakk þú ei hóti framar ‘do not go one bit further’: Cf. HjǪ 19/1.
ei ‘do not’
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3. ei (adv.): not
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[8] gakk þú ei hóti framar ‘do not go one bit further’: Cf. HjǪ 19/1.
framar ‘further’
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fram (adv.): out, forth, forwards, away
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[8] gakk þú ei hóti framar ‘do not go one bit further’: Cf. HjǪ 19/1.
hóti ‘one bit’
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2. hót (noun n.; °; -): a bit
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[8] gakk þú ei hóti framar ‘do not go one bit further’: Cf. HjǪ 19/1.
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Hervǫr warns Hǫrðr again of her father’s powers immediately after HjǪ 23, the stanza being introduced with ok enn kvað hón ‘and she spoke again’.
Once again, as with the previous two stanzas, this one is textually corrupt, and it is very difficult to make sense of ll. 2-3 and 7. Kock (NN §3297) observes that the stanza’s verse-form is aberrant. Previous eds have emended ll. 2-4 in the following way, drawing on the annotations in papp6ˣ; so Skj B and FSGJ, and, with small differences, Skald: eigi mart vitum frægra, | virðar vinna listir | ok val tafni fæða ‘we do not know much more famous, men perform sports and feed the hawk with carrion’. There is no way of knowing whether these conjectures had any ms. authority.
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