Aðils Lv 1VIII (Hrólf 9)
†Desmond Slay (ed.) 2017, ‘Hrólfs saga kraka 9 (Aðils konungr, Lausavísa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 547.
Dalr ‘a hollow’
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dalr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ir, acc. -i/-a): valley
er ‘There is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
hnakka ‘the back of his head’
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hnakki (noun m.; °-a): neck
auga ‘an eye’
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auga (noun n.; °auga; augu/augun, gen. augna): eye
ór ‘out’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
höfði ‘of his head’
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hǫfuð (noun n.; °-s; -): head
örr ‘a scar’
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ørr (noun n.; °-s; -): scar
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
í ‘on’
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í (prep.): in, into
enni ‘his forehead’
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enni (noun n.; °-s; -): forehead, brow
högg ‘cuts’
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hǫgg (noun n.; °-s, dat. hǫggvi/hǫggi; -): blow
eru ‘are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
hendi ‘his arm’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
tvau ‘two’
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tveir (num. cardinal): two
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When King Hrólfr and his champions visit King Aðils in his hall, Svipdagr leads them in, and Aðils greets his former follower with these words.
[2]: The alliteration is on the second stave; Finnur Jónsson (Skj B), and Kock (Skald; NN §2835), emend to ór hǫfði auga. — [3-4]: As in Hrólf 5/1-2, l. 4 has double alliteration, and there is no alliteration between ll. 3 and 4; both Skj B and Skald delete eru in l. 4 to create a metrical line, and Kock emends to hǫgg á armi tvau.
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