Hjþ Lv 14VIII (HjǪ 41)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 41 (Hjálmþér Ingason, Lausavísur 14)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 532.
Berum ‘carry’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
[1] Berum: so ÍBR5ˣ, Berum vit 109a IIIˣ, papp6ˣ
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
baki ‘back’
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bak (noun n.; °-s; *-): back
okru ‘our’
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okkarr (pron.; °f. okkur; pl. okkrir): our
[1] okru: so ÍBR5ˣ, okkar 109a IIIˣ, om. papp6ˣ
brodda ‘of spear-points’
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broddr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): point of spear or arrow
kennings
framkeyri brodda,‘the forward-driver of spear-points ’
= WARRIOR = Hǫrðr
the forward-driver of spear-points → WARRIOR = Hǫrðr
fram ‘the forward’
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fram (adv.): out, forth, forwards, away < framkeyrir (noun m.): [forward-driver]
kennings
framkeyri brodda,‘the forward-driver of spear-points ’
= WARRIOR = Hǫrðr
the forward-driver of spear-points → WARRIOR = Hǫrðr
keyri ‘driver’
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keyrir (noun m.): [driver of, driver] < framkeyrir (noun m.): [forward-driver]
kennings
framkeyri brodda,‘the forward-driver of spear-points ’
= WARRIOR = Hǫrðr
the forward-driver of spear-points → WARRIOR = Hǫrðr
launum ‘repay’
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3. laun (noun n.; °-; -): rewards
notes
[3] launum honum svá líf ‘repay him thus for life’: Hjálmþér refers to Hǫrðr’s saving of his own life in several episodes of the saga.
svá ‘thus’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
notes
[3] launum honum svá líf ‘repay him thus for life’: Hjálmþér refers to Hǫrðr’s saving of his own life in several episodes of the saga.
líf ‘for life’
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líf (noun n.; °-s; -): life
notes
[3] launum honum svá líf ‘repay him thus for life’: Hjálmþér refers to Hǫrðr’s saving of his own life in several episodes of the saga.
honum ‘him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[3] launum honum svá líf ‘repay him thus for life’: Hjálmþér refers to Hǫrðr’s saving of his own life in several episodes of the saga.
látum ‘leave’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
hann ‘him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
eptir ‘behind’
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eptir (prep.): after, behind
Hörð ‘Hǫrðr’
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Hǫrðr (noun m.)
hvergi ‘nowhere’
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1. hvergi (adv.): nowhere
fyrr ‘before’
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fyrr (adv.): before, sooner
en ‘’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
heim ‘home’
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heim (adv.): home, back
[6] heim: om. but added above the line in another hand papp6ˣ
komum ‘come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
gröfum ‘bury’
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grafa (verb): to dig, earth, bury
notes
[7] gröfum hann heima ‘let us [me] bury him at home’: Most eds prefer this, the original reading of papp6ˣ (so FSN; FSGJ; Skald), and leave out of account a word that appears in both 109a IIIˣ and ÍBR5ˣ (‘ytar’ or ‘ytran’). Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) interprets this word as ítran ‘remarkable’, construing ‘let us bury the remarkable man by the wall of the hall’. Alternatively, ms. ÍBR5ˣs form could be construed as ytran ‘outer’, agreeing with vegg ‘wall’ (l. 8), but, as Kock has observed (NN §183), a non-alliterating nomen is not usually found immediately before one that alliterates. He suggests that the mss’ ytar or ytran are remnants of an original word beginning with <h>.
hann ‘him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[7] hann: so papp6ˣ, ‘hann ytar’ 109a IIIˣ, ‘hann ytran’ ÍBR5ˣ
notes
[7] gröfum hann heima ‘let us [me] bury him at home’: Most eds prefer this, the original reading of papp6ˣ (so FSN; FSGJ; Skald), and leave out of account a word that appears in both 109a IIIˣ and ÍBR5ˣ (‘ytar’ or ‘ytran’). Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) interprets this word as ítran ‘remarkable’, construing ‘let us bury the remarkable man by the wall of the hall’. Alternatively, ms. ÍBR5ˣs form could be construed as ytran ‘outer’, agreeing with vegg ‘wall’ (l. 8), but, as Kock has observed (NN §183), a non-alliterating nomen is not usually found immediately before one that alliterates. He suggests that the mss’ ytar or ytran are remnants of an original word beginning with <h>.
notes
[7] gröfum hann heima ‘let us [me] bury him at home’: Most eds prefer this, the original reading of papp6ˣ (so FSN; FSGJ; Skald), and leave out of account a word that appears in both 109a IIIˣ and ÍBR5ˣ (‘ytar’ or ‘ytran’). Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) interprets this word as ítran ‘remarkable’, construing ‘let us bury the remarkable man by the wall of the hall’. Alternatively, ms. ÍBR5ˣs form could be construed as ytran ‘outer’, agreeing with vegg ‘wall’ (l. 8), but, as Kock has observed (NN §183), a non-alliterating nomen is not usually found immediately before one that alliterates. He suggests that the mss’ ytar or ytran are remnants of an original word beginning with <h>.
hallar ‘of the hall’
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1. hǫll (noun f.; °hallar, dat. -u/-; hallir): hall
[8] hallar: hallar with und written above in another hand papp6ˣ
vegg ‘the wall’
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1. veggr (noun m.; °-jar/-s(Páll²A 257³³), dat. -/-i(kun defin.); -ir): wall
[8] vegg: veggum papp6ˣ
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Hjálmþér speaks this stanza after his shock discovery that Hǫrðr is dead.
Hjálmþérsrímur express the substance of this stanza in three much more prolix stanzas (IX, 36-8, Finnur Jónsson 1905-22, II, 61).
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