Hjþ Lv 3VIII (HjǪ 5)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 5 (Hjálmþér Ingason, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 497.
Hræðilig ‘dreadful’
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hræðiligr (adj.): terrible, dreadful
muntu ‘You will’
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munu (verb): will, must
þykkja ‘seem’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
hölða ‘of heroes’
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hǫlðr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): man
liði ‘to the company’
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lið (noun n.; °-s; -): retinue, troop
[2] liði: mengi corrected from ‘liði’ above the line in another hand papp6ˣ
notes
[3] þótt þú sér oss í sinni ‘even though you may be of help to us’: The line echoes the preceding stanza, HjǪ 4/3. The expression vera e-m í sinni means ‘follow’ in the sense of ‘support, be of help to sby’.
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
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[3] þótt þú sér oss í sinni ‘even though you may be of help to us’: The line echoes the preceding stanza, HjǪ 4/3. The expression vera e-m í sinni means ‘follow’ in the sense of ‘support, be of help to sby’.
oss ‘to us’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
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[3] þótt þú sér oss í sinni ‘even though you may be of help to us’: The line echoes the preceding stanza, HjǪ 4/3. The expression vera e-m í sinni means ‘follow’ in the sense of ‘support, be of help to sby’.
í ‘may be’
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í (prep.): in, into
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[3] þótt þú sér oss í sinni ‘even though you may be of help to us’: The line echoes the preceding stanza, HjǪ 4/3. The expression vera e-m í sinni means ‘follow’ in the sense of ‘support, be of help to sby’.
sinni ‘of help’
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2. sinn (noun n.; °?dat. -): time
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[3] þótt þú sér oss í sinni ‘even though you may be of help to us’: The line echoes the preceding stanza, HjǪ 4/3. The expression vera e-m í sinni means ‘follow’ in the sense of ‘support, be of help to sby’.
sér ‘’
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sik (pron.; °gen. sín, dat. sér): (refl. pron.)
[3] sér (‘siert’): so ÍBR5ˣ, ‘sitier’ 109a IIIˣ, ‘sitier’ with sert added above oss in another hand papp6ˣ
notes
[3] þótt þú sér oss í sinni ‘even though you may be of help to us’: The line echoes the preceding stanza, HjǪ 4/3. The expression vera e-m í sinni means ‘follow’ in the sense of ‘support, be of help to sby’.
Engan ‘not one’
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2. engi (pron.): no, none
várn ‘our’
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várr (pron.; °f. ór/vár; pl. órir/várir): our
seggja ‘men’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
þú ‘You’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
svíkja ‘deceive’
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svíkja (verb): betray, deceive
munt ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
vösk ‘valiant’
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vaskr (adj.)
vin ‘friend’
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vinr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/(-i OsvReyk 92.17); -ir): friend < vinkona (noun f.)
kona ‘woman’
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kona (noun f.; °-u; -ur/-r(KlmA1980 116¹¹), gen. pl. kvenna/kvinna): woman < vinkona (noun f.)
Vör in ‘Vör <goddess>’
[7] Vör in: munt 109a IIIˣ, ÍBR5ˣ, ‘vør hin’ corrected from ‘mun’ above the line in another hand papp6ˣ
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[7]: This edn, following a suggestion of Kari Ellen Gade, adopts papp6ˣ’s emended reading of this line, which, as its stands in all mss, is too short and lacks double alliteration. The first two words ‘vør hin’ of papp6ˣ’s correction are understood to be respectively the goddess-name Vǫr (see SnE 2005, 29) and the f. nom. sg. of the def. art. (h)in.
harð ‘the hard’
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harðr (adj.; °comp. -ari; superl. -astr): hard, harsh < harðleitr (adj.)
notes
[7]: This edn, following a suggestion of Kari Ellen Gade, adopts papp6ˣ’s emended reading of this line, which, as its stands in all mss, is too short and lacks double alliteration. The first two words ‘vør hin’ of papp6ˣ’s correction are understood to be respectively the goddess-name Vǫr (see SnE 2005, 29) and the f. nom. sg. of the def. art. (h)in.
leita ‘faced’
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-leitr (adj.): -looking < harðleitr (adj.)
[7] ‑leita: so corrected from ‘‑letra’ in another hand papp6ˣ, ‘‑letra’ 109a IIIˣ, ÍBR5ˣ
notes
[7]: This edn, following a suggestion of Kari Ellen Gade, adopts papp6ˣ’s emended reading of this line, which, as its stands in all mss, is too short and lacks double alliteration. The first two words ‘vør hin’ of papp6ˣ’s correction are understood to be respectively the goddess-name Vǫr (see SnE 2005, 29) and the f. nom. sg. of the def. art. (h)in.
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This stanza follows straight on from HjǪ 4, and is introduced with hann kvað ‘he said’.
This stanza, like HjǪ 4, is in ljóðaháttr, but it contains an extra line (l. 7) which is loosely connected to the rest of the stanza and is present in all mss. It is omitted by many eds, including Skj B (but not Skj A), Skald and FSGJ.
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