Hǫrðr Lv 2VIII (HjǪ 25)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 25 (Hǫrðr/Hringr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 518.
Hörðr ‘Hǫrðr’
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Hǫrðr (noun m.)
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[All]: Cf. Hjálmþérsrímur V, 13 (Finnur Jónsson 1905-22, II, 35). — [1-2] Hörðr … hyggjustóri: Compare Hamð 6/1-2 (NK 269): Hitt qvað þá Hamðir, | inn hugomstóri ‘Then Hamðir, the great-minded, spoke that’. Cf. also the nickname of the legendary hero Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri ‘the Great-minded’ in Heiðr and Ǫrv.
Hörðr ‘Hǫrðr’
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Hǫrðr (noun m.)
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[All]: Cf. Hjálmþérsrímur V, 13 (Finnur Jónsson 1905-22, II, 35). — [1-2] Hörðr … hyggjustóri: Compare Hamð 6/1-2 (NK 269): Hitt qvað þá Hamðir, | inn hugomstóri ‘Then Hamðir, the great-minded, spoke that’. Cf. also the nickname of the legendary hero Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri ‘the Great-minded’ in Heiðr and Ǫrv.
mælti ‘spoke’
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1. mæla (verb): speak, say
inn ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
hyggjustóri ‘great-minded’
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hyggjustórr (adj.)
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[All]: HjǪ 1720 excludes l. 1 from the stanza and treats it as prose, while FSGJ presents the whole stanza as prose, though it is a mixture of fornyrðislag (l. 1, if desyllabified, ll. 3, 5-8) and málaháttr (ll. 2, 4). — [1-2] Hörðr … hyggjustóri: Compare Hamð 6/1-2 (NK 269): Hitt qvað þá Hamðir, | inn hugomstóri ‘Then Hamðir, the great-minded, spoke that’. Cf. also the nickname of the legendary hero Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri ‘the Great-minded’ in Heiðr and Ǫrv.
hyggjustóri ‘great-minded’
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hyggjustórr (adj.)
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[All]: HjǪ 1720 excludes l. 1 from the stanza and treats it as prose, while FSGJ presents the whole stanza as prose, though it is a mixture of fornyrðislag (l. 1, if desyllabified, ll. 3, 5-8) and málaháttr (ll. 2, 4). — [1-2] Hörðr … hyggjustóri: Compare Hamð 6/1-2 (NK 269): Hitt qvað þá Hamðir, | inn hugomstóri ‘Then Hamðir, the great-minded, spoke that’. Cf. also the nickname of the legendary hero Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri ‘the Great-minded’ in Heiðr and Ǫrv.
hrekr ‘scold’
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hrekja (verb): [vanquished]
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[3-4] hrekr í orðum ‘scold’: Lit. ‘worry in words’.
þú ‘do you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
Hervör ‘Hervǫr’
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Hervǫr (noun f.)
í ‘’
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í (prep.): in, into
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[3-4] hrekr í orðum ‘scold’: Lit. ‘worry in words’.
orðum ‘’
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orð (noun n.; °-s; -): word
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[3-4] hrekr í orðum ‘scold’: Lit. ‘worry in words’.
Væri ‘It would be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
heldr ‘rather’
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heldr (adv.): rather
nær ‘more fitting’
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nær (adv.): near, almost; when
[5] nær: so papp6ˣ, om. 109a IIIˣ, ÍBR5ˣ
vífi ‘woman’
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víf (noun n.): woman, wife
hoskum ‘wise’
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horskr (adj.; °compar. -ari): wise
dreng ‘man’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
holl ‘gracious’
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hollr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): loyal
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
ráðum ‘counsels’
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ráð (noun n.; °-s; -): advice, plan, control, power
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Hǫrðr asks Hervǫr why she is trying to frighten him, when women such as she would customarily welcome travelling heroes to their courts.
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