Anon Eirm 8I
R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Eiríksmál 8’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1012.
Heill ‘Good fortune’
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2. heill (noun n.; °; -): fortune
þú ‘to you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
vel ‘wel’
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vel (adv.): well, very
skalt ‘will be’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
hér ‘here’
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hér (adv.): here
kominn ‘come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
gakk ‘go’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
í ‘into’
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í (prep.): in, into
hǫll ‘the hall’
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1. hǫll (noun f.; °hallar, dat. -u/-; hallir): hall
horskr ‘wise’
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horskr (adj.; °compar. -ari): wise
Hins ‘One thing’
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2. inn (art.): the
vil ‘want’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þik ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
fregna ‘to ask’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
hvat ‘what’
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hvat (pron.): what
fylgir ‘accompany’
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2. fylgja (verb): follow, accompany
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
jǫfra ‘princes’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
egg ‘the edge’
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1. egg (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-): edge, blade < eggþrima (noun f.): [edge-thunder]
kennings
eggþrimu?’‘the edge-thunder?’’
= BATTLE
the edge-thunder?’ → BATTLE
þrimu ‘thunder’
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þrima (noun f.): battle, din < eggþrima (noun f.): [edge-thunder]
kennings
eggþrimu?’‘the edge-thunder?’’
= BATTLE
the edge-thunder?’ → BATTLE
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As for st. 1 (Fsk).
[1-3]: Noreen (1922b, 540-1) compares this and Eyv Hák 13/5-6 with Vafþr 6/1-3 Heill þú nú Vafðrúðnir! | nú em ec í hǫll kominn, | á þic siálfan siá ‘Good health to you now, Vafþrúðnir; now I have come into the hall to look on you in person’ (NK 46). — [1] heill þú nú, Eirekr * ‘good fortune to you now, Eiríkr’: The speaker is Sigmundr. The phrase identifying him as such in the mss, however, is extrametrical and is omitted here; see Introduction to the poem. Heill is the adj. here, whose sense is most often ‘healthy, hale’, but in the context of this greeting the meaning may rather be ‘fortunate’ (Fritzner: heill adj. 3; cf. heill n. ‘good fortune’). — [4-6]: That Sigmundr immediately asks what in the way of kings Eiríkr brings with him suggests some anxiety on his part. The point would seem to be to show how much Eiríkr’s support is relied upon in Valhǫll (cf. st. 7/5-7 and Note). If this is indeed the poet’s purpose, then in the next stanza it is the number of accompanying kings that matters, not their names, and so the fact that they are not identified need not imply loss of stanzas.
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