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Keth Lv 2VIII (Ket 3 [a])

Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 3 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 553.

Ketill hœngrLausavísur
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Skríð ‘Slide’

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skríða (verb): creep, glide

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af ‘from’

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af (prep.): from

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kjálka ‘the sledge’

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kjalki (noun m.; °-a; -ar): °kæbe, kæbeben; kælk

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kyrr ‘calm’

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kyrr (adj.): calm, quiet

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hreina ‘reindeer’

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1. hreinn (noun m.; °; hreinar): reindeer

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seggr ‘man’

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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man

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förull ‘travelling’

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fǫrull (adj.): [by night] < síðfǫrull (adj.)

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seg ‘say’

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segja (verb): say, tell

[4] seg: seg þú 471

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hvattu ‘what’

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hvat (pron.): what

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heitir ‘your name is’

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2. heita (verb): be called, promise

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The first four lines of this stanza (Ket 3a) are introduced by the words: Ketill kvaddi hann með vísu ‘Ketill addressed him with a stanza’. Between lines 1-4 and 5-8 the mss indicate that Gusi is the speaker of the latter part of the stanza (Ket 3b) by the remark: sá svarar ‘that [man] answers’ (343a) or sá sagði ‘that [man] said’ (471).

The request that a stranger reveal his name and identity is conventional in both mythic and heroic poetry; cf. Fáfn 1-2.

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