Gusi Lv 3VIII (Ket 6)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 6 (Gusi finnakonungr, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 557.
Hverr ‘Who’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
er ‘is that’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
öndrum ‘skis’
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andr (noun m.; °; andrar): ski
öndverðan ‘in the first part’
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ǫndverðr (adj.): early, beginning
dag ‘of the day’
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dagr (noun m.; °-s, dat. degi/dag/dagi(Thom¹ 332¹n.); -ar): day
gjarn ‘eager’
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gjarn (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): eager
til ‘for’
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til (prep.): to
gunnar ‘battle’
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gunnr (noun f.): battle
í ‘in a’
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í (prep.): in, into
grimmum ‘hostile’
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grimmr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): fierce
hug ‘frame of mind’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage
Vit ‘We two’
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2. vit (pron.): we two
skulum ‘must’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
freista ‘try’
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freista (verb): attempt, tempt
flein ‘the javelin’
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fleinn (noun m.; °dat. fleini): spear
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
rjóða ‘redden’
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rjóða (verb): to redden
hvárr ‘each’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
at ‘on the’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
öðrum ‘other’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
nema ‘unless’
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2. nema (conj.): unless
hugr ‘courage’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage
bili ‘fails’
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bila (verb; °-að-): fail
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In this stanza Gusi asks Ketill a second time who he is; it is introduced in 343a by the words: Gusir kvað vísu ‘Gusir spoke a stanza’. Ket 6-11, comprising Gusi Lv 3-5, alternating with Keth Lv 4-6, follow immediately one after the other with only speaker designations (Ketill / Gusir kvað) between one stanza and the next.
This stanza and Keth Lv 4 (Ket 7) are missing from 471, supporting the possibility, first argued in Edd. Min. lxxii, that they are doublets of Gusi Lv 2 (Ket 4) and Keth Lv 3 (Ket 5). — [1-2]: The words öndrum and öndverðan alliterate and rhyme with one another. — [5-7]: I.e. ‘we should try to kill one another’. The expression at rjóða flein ‘redden the javelin’ (or any sharp-pointed weapon, cf. LP: fleinn) belongs to a very common kind of circumlocution meaning ‘do battle, kill’ (cf. LP: rjóða 2) and is used in GOdds Lv 5/3IV. It is possible, however, that fleinn here refers specifically to an arrow, as Gusi was famous for his ownership of three magic arrows (see Note to Ket 27/1, 3 below).
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