Vargeisa Lv 1VIII (HjǪ 4)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 4 (Vargeisa/Álfsól, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 497.
Vargeisa ‘Vargeisa’
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Vargeisa (noun f.)
notes
[1] Vargeisa: The etymological sense of this name, if it has one, remains elusive. The first element is probably intended to allude to the word vargr ‘wolf, outlaw’, and its f. counterpart vargynja, and, if so, the second element of the cpd may be eisa ‘glowing coals, embers’. Alternatively, the second element may recall the verb geisa ‘rage’, but then the sense of the first element is uncertain (var- in compounds like varhugi ‘wariness, heed’ seems unsuitable).
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
heiti ‘am called’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
heyr ‘listen’
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2. heyra (verb): hear
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
vísis ‘of a king’
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1. vísir (noun m.): [king, ruler]
son ‘son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
viltu ‘do you want’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
ek ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þér ‘to you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
í ‘of’
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í (prep.): in, into
sinni ‘help’
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2. sinni (noun n.; °-s;): time, occasion; company, following
[3] sinni: á sinni et liðsinna written around the line in another hand papp6ˣ
sé ‘to be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
Allra ‘of all’
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allr (adj.): all
þinna ‘your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
þik ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
þurfa ‘have need’
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2. þurfa (verb): need, be necessary
munu ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
vel ‘indeed’
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vel (adv.): well, very
trúra ‘true’
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trúr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): faithful
vina ‘friends’
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vinr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/(-i OsvReyk 92.17); -ir): friend
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The stanza follows immediately after HjǪ 3.
Cf. Hjálmþérsrímur III, 21 (Finnur Jónsson 1905-22, II, 22). — In this stanza, composed in ljóðaháttr, Vargeisa’s friendly and genteel approach to Hjálmþér belies her unfortunately monstrous appearance, if not nature.
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