Keth Lv 4VIII (Ket 7)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 7 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 558.
Hæng ‘Hœngr (‘Salmon’)’
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hœingr (noun m.; °-s): [salmon]
notes
[1] Hæng ‘Hœngr ("Salmon")’: See Note to Ket 1/1.
kalla ‘They call’
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kalla (verb): call
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hálfu ‘as half’
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halfr (adj.): half
nafni ‘name’
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nafn (noun n.; °-s; *-): name
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
notes
[3-4] ek mun veita þér viðnám heðan ‘I will offer you resistance from here’: I.e. ‘standing here’: The expression veita við[r]nám ‘offer resistance’ occurs in HǫrðG Lv 8/5V (Harð 15) and in prose texts (Fritzner: viðrnám).
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[3-4] ek mun veita þér viðnám heðan ‘I will offer you resistance from here’: I.e. ‘standing here’: The expression veita við[r]nám ‘offer resistance’ occurs in HǫrðG Lv 8/5V (Harð 15) and in prose texts (Fritzner: viðrnám).
veita ‘offer’
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2. veita (verb): grant, give
notes
[3-4] ek mun veita þér viðnám heðan ‘I will offer you resistance from here’: I.e. ‘standing here’: The expression veita við[r]nám ‘offer resistance’ occurs in HǫrðG Lv 8/5V (Harð 15) and in prose texts (Fritzner: viðrnám).
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
notes
[3-4] ek mun veita þér viðnám heðan ‘I will offer you resistance from here’: I.e. ‘standing here’: The expression veita við[r]nám ‘offer resistance’ occurs in HǫrðG Lv 8/5V (Harð 15) and in prose texts (Fritzner: viðrnám).
viðnám ‘resistance’
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viðnám (noun n.)
notes
[3-4] ek mun veita þér viðnám heðan ‘I will offer you resistance from here’: I.e. ‘standing here’: The expression veita við[r]nám ‘offer resistance’ occurs in HǫrðG Lv 8/5V (Harð 15) and in prose texts (Fritzner: viðrnám).
heðan ‘from here’
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heðan (adv.): hence, from this place
notes
[3-4] ek mun veita þér viðnám heðan ‘I will offer you resistance from here’: I.e. ‘standing here’: The expression veita við[r]nám ‘offer resistance’ occurs in HǫrðG Lv 8/5V (Harð 15) and in prose texts (Fritzner: viðrnám).
Skaltu ‘You shall’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
víst ‘certainly’
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1. víss (adj.): wise, certain(ly)
vita ‘know’
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1. vita (verb): know
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
vit ‘we two’
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2. vit (pron.): we two
skiljum ‘part’
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1. skilja (verb): separate, understand
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
búkörlum ‘farmers’
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búkarl (noun m.; °; -ar): farmer
notes
[7] búkörlum ‘farmers’: Ketill insults Gusi, who earlier calls himself the ruler of the noble Saami (cf. Ket 3b), by referring to him as a common farmer of low status (búkarl).
bíta ‘bite’
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bíta (verb; °bítr; beit, bitu; bitinn): bite
örvar ‘arrows’
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ǫr (noun f.; °dat. -/-u; ǫrvar/ǫrar): arrow
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Ketill identifies himself a second time. The stanza is introduced with the words: Ketill kvað ‘Ketill said’ immediately after Ket 6.
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