Keth Lv 17VIII (Ket 29)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 29 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 17)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 581.
Ketill ‘Ketill’
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Ketill (noun m.): [Ketill, called]
notes
[1-2]: Ketill identifies himself with a sentence which is almost identical to his self-identification in Ket 5/1-2, the only difference being that there he gives his name as Hœngr rather than Ketill. In several mss Ketill’s answer consists of a single unmetrical sentence: Ketill ór Hrafnistu | máttu mik kalla ‘you can call me Ketill from Hrafnista’ which perhaps could be regarded as a single long-line.
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[1-2]: Ketill identifies himself with a sentence which is almost identical to his self-identification in Ket 5/1-2, the only difference being that there he gives his name as Hœngr rather than Ketill. In several mss Ketill’s answer consists of a single unmetrical sentence: Ketill ór Hrafnistu | máttu mik kalla ‘you can call me Ketill from Hrafnista’ which perhaps could be regarded as a single long-line.
heiti ‘am named’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
notes
[1-2]: Ketill identifies himself with a sentence which is almost identical to his self-identification in Ket 5/1-2, the only difference being that there he gives his name as Hœngr rather than Ketill. In several mss Ketill’s answer consists of a single unmetrical sentence: Ketill ór Hrafnistu | máttu mik kalla ‘you can call me Ketill from Hrafnista’ which perhaps could be regarded as a single long-line.
kominn ‘come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
notes
[1-2]: Ketill identifies himself with a sentence which is almost identical to his self-identification in Ket 5/1-2, the only difference being that there he gives his name as Hœngr rather than Ketill. In several mss Ketill’s answer consists of a single unmetrical sentence: Ketill ór Hrafnistu | máttu mik kalla ‘you can call me Ketill from Hrafnista’ which perhaps could be regarded as a single long-line.
ór ‘from’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
notes
[1-2]: Ketill identifies himself with a sentence which is almost identical to his self-identification in Ket 5/1-2, the only difference being that there he gives his name as Hœngr rather than Ketill. In several mss Ketill’s answer consists of a single unmetrical sentence: Ketill ór Hrafnistu | máttu mik kalla ‘you can call me Ketill from Hrafnista’ which perhaps could be regarded as a single long-line.
Hrafnistu ‘Hrafnista’
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Hrafnista (noun f.)
notes
[1-2]: Ketill identifies himself with a sentence which is almost identical to his self-identification in Ket 5/1-2, the only difference being that there he gives his name as Hœngr rather than Ketill. In several mss Ketill’s answer consists of a single unmetrical sentence: Ketill ór Hrafnistu | máttu mik kalla ‘you can call me Ketill from Hrafnista’ which perhaps could be regarded as a single long-line.
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
upp ‘up’
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upp (adv.): up
um ‘’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
alinn ‘brought’
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ala (verb; °elr; ól, ólu; alinn): to beget, produce, procreate
Hugfullt ‘courage-filled’
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hugfullr (adj.): high-mettled
hjarta ‘heart’
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hjarta (noun n.; °-; *-u): heart
veit ‘know’
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1. vita (verb): know
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hlífa ‘protects’
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hlífa (verb): protect
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þó ‘yet’
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þó (adv.): though
vilda ‘would like’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
gisting ‘lodging’
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gisting (noun f.): accommodation, hospitality
[6] gisting: gisting corrected from ‘gistning’ 471
geta ‘to obtain’
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2. geta (verb): to beget, give birth to, mention, speak of; to think well of, like, love
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