Keth Lv 16VIII (Ket 26)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 26 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 16)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 578.
Örum ‘arrows’
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1. ór (noun f.; °; -ar): [fits of madness]
trúi ‘trust’
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2. trúa (verb): to believe (in)
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
mínum ‘in my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
notes
[2] afrendi ‘strength’: Ms. 471 has the reading afrendi (< *afrhendi ‘strength of hand’) instead of the more general afli ‘strength’, the reading of 343a. The latter makes sense, but the former is the lectio difficilior and is preferred by Skj B and Skald and this edn (but not Edd. Min.). On the word afrendi see Kommentar II, 334-5 to Hym 28/2.
þinni ‘your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
[2] þinni (‘þini’): so 471, þínu 343a
fleinn ‘a shaft’
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fleinn (noun m.; °dat. fleini): spear
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
mæta ‘meet’
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mœta (verb): meet
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 ‘before it’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
hrøkkvir ‘give way’
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1. hrøkkva (verb): coil
[4] hrøkkvir (‘hrockvir’): so 471, ‘hraukir’ 343a
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Ketill replies in prose to Forað’s threat by saying that such hostility is to be expected of her. She tries to capture him in her grasp, but Ketill utters this defiant stanza, asserting that he trusts in the efficacy of his weapons. The stanza is introduced by the words: Ketill kvað þá vísu ‘Then Ketill spoke a stanza’.
Ketill depicts the conflict between himself and Forað as a contest between his weapons and her physical strength. In a similar stanza at the close of the hostile exchange between Ketill’s son Grímr loðinkinna ‘Hairy-cheek’ and the giantesses Feima and Kleima (GrL 5), this contrast is expressed pregnantly as one between broddr ‘weapon-point’ and krumma ‘claw’; in both cases the hero’s weapons are the arrows known as Gusisnautar ‘Gusir’s gifts’ (see Note to l. 1).
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