Vargeisa Lv 2VIII (HjǪ 6)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 6 (Vargeisa/Álfsól, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 498.
Sæk ‘Take’
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sœkja (verb): seek, attack
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
Snarvendil ‘Snarvendill’
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snarvendill (noun m.)
notes
[1] Snarvendil ‘Snarvendill’: A sword-name, similar in form to that of another legendary sword, Dragvendill (or Dragvandill), owned by Ketill hœngr ‘Salmon’ (see Ket 36/1 and Note, Þul Sverða 1/4III). The first element of the cpd, snarr-, lit. ‘hard-twisted’ is used metaphorically to mean ‘swift’, ‘keen’ or ‘sharp’. On the possible meanings of the second element -vendill, see Falk (1914b, 63).
sigr ‘victory’
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sigr (noun m.; °sigrs/sigrar, dat. sigri; sigrar): victory
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
honum ‘it’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
fylgja ‘follow’
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2. fylgja (verb): follow, accompany
hoskr ‘wise’
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horskr (adj.; °compar. -ari): wise
notes
[3] hoskr ‘wise’: All mss use the younger form of the adj. horskr ‘wise’ with assimilation of <rs> before the consonant combination <ss> and consequent shortening to <s> before the consonant <k> (cf. ANG §272.3). Kock (NN §3296A) interprets the adj. as ‘daring, bold, valiant’ rather than as ‘wise’, the meaning fairly universally accepted elsewhere, and considers the syntax of this phrase with the adj. as predicative in a conditional clause, ‘if you are bold, prince …’. This view of the meaning and structure seems unnecessarily complex and perhaps misleading.
ef ‘if’
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3. ef (conj.): if
[3] ef þú hilmir vilt: ‘ef þú himler villt’ papp6ˣ, ef vilt hilmir ÍBR5ˣ
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[3] ef þú hilmir vilt: ‘ef þú himler villt’ papp6ˣ, ef vilt hilmir ÍBR5ˣ
hilmir ‘prince’
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hilmir (noun m.): prince, protector
[3] ef þú hilmir vilt: ‘ef þú himler villt’ papp6ˣ, ef vilt hilmir ÍBR5ˣ
vilt ‘want’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
[3] ef þú hilmir vilt: ‘ef þú himler villt’ papp6ˣ, ef vilt hilmir ÍBR5ˣ
þér ‘your’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[4] þér: þér added in left margin in scribal hand papp6ˣ
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
hendi ‘hand’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
bera ‘to carry it’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
Koss ‘kiss’
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koss (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): kiss
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
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
klénan ‘nice’
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klénn (adj.): [a magnificent]
notes
[6] klénan ‘nice’: ON klénn is a late loan from MLG klēn ‘beautiful, pure, fine’ (the first citation in ONP is c. 1350); cf. Anon Mv II 6/3VII and Note. It occurs quite commonly in rímur, applied particularly to women, but also to weapons and clothing (cf. Finnur Jónsson 1926-8, 212-13). In Hjálmþérsrímur III, 24/1 (Finnur Jónsson 1905-22, II, 22) Vargeisa asks the hero to give her a vænan koss ‘lovely kiss’.
þiggja ‘to get’
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þiggja (verb): receive, get
þá ‘then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
muntu ‘you will’
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munu (verb): will, must
mímung ‘the sword’
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mímungr (noun m.): °(om sværd)
[7] mímung: so papp6ˣ, ÍBR5ˣ, ‘mimmung’ 109a IIIˣ
notes
[7] mímung ‘the sword’: Treated here as a sword-heiti, but elsewhere in Germanic literature a named sword, Mímungr (cf. Falk 1914b, 55; Gillespie 1973, 94-5).
mér ‘my’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
ór ‘from’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
hendi ‘hand’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
fá ‘get’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
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Vargeisa tells Hjálmþér, who wants the sword she is carrying, that he can have it if he gives her a kiss. The stanza is introduced with the clause henni varð þá ljóð á munni ‘then a song came to her mouth’ (for the significance of this expression, see Quinn 1998).
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