Brúni Lv 1VIII (Ket 1)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 1 (Brúni, Lausavísa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 551.
Heill ‘Welcome’
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3. heill (adj.; °heilan; compar. heilli, superl. -astr/-str): healthy, hale, hail
kom ‘’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
Hængr ‘Hœngr (‘Salmon’)’
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hœingr (noun m.; °-s): [salmon]
notes
[1] Hængr ‘Hœngr (“Salmon”)’: This cognomen means ‘male salmon’. Ketill acquires it when he kills a dragon by cutting it in two with his axe (Ket ch. 1, FSGJ 2, 153-5). Upon his return home he tells his father Hallbjǫrn that he cannot say where he found schools of fish but that he did hew asunder a male salmon (hœngr, hængr after c. 1250). Hallbjǫrn thinks so little of this report that he gives his son the cognomen hœngr ‘male salmon’. He indicates that Ketill is unable to judge the import of his discovery, since he regards salmon (dragons?) as ‘small fry’ (smáfiskar). Later, while on a fishing expedition with his father, Ketill kills an outlaw named Hœngr who has demanded that Ketill relinquish his large catch of fish to him. When Ketill returns to his father with the catch and relates the incident, Hallbjǫrn says that the name hœngr is well-chosen, since his son is obviously a keen hunter of ‘big fish’ (stórfiskar).
hér ‘here’
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hér (adv.): here
skaltu ‘you must’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
þiggja ‘accept’
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þiggja (verb): receive, get
allan ‘the whole’
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allr (adj.): all
vetr ‘winter’
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vetr (noun m.; °vetrar/vetrs(HómHauksb³ 173²³), dat. vetri; vetr): winter
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
oss ‘us’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
vera ‘to be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
Þér ‘to you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
fastna ‘engage’
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fastna (verb): [be engaged to]
nema ‘unless’
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2. nema (conj.): unless
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
fyrir ‘’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
látir ‘reject’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
mína ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
dagr ‘day’
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dagr (noun m.; °-s, dat. degi/dag/dagi(Thom¹ 332¹n.); -ar): day
komi ‘comes’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
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The stanza is introduced by the words: Sá tók honum vel ok kvað vísu ‘That man [Brúni] received him [Ketill] well and spoke a stanza’.
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