Keth Lv 5VIII (Ket 9)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 9 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 560.
Mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
af ‘up’
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af (prep.): from
auði ‘my wealth’
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1. auðr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-): wealth
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
láta ‘give’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
einum ‘alone’
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1. einn (num. cardinal; °f. ein, n. eitt; pl. einir; superl. debil. -asti(Anna238(2001) 155³²)): one; alone
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
aldri ‘never’
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aldri (adv.): never
renna ‘run’
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2. renna (verb): run (strong)
Fyrr ‘Before’
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fyrr (adv.): before, sooner
skal ‘will’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
notes
[5-6] skal hlíf höggvin ‘the shield will be hacked [to pieces]’: Hlif ‘the shield’ lit. ‘protection’. Höggvin or höggin (so 343a) is a f. form of the p. p. of the verb höggva ‘hew, cut’ (ANG §503). This is an elliptical passive construction in which the inf. vera ‘be’ has been left out (cf. LT: 2vera).
höggvin ‘be hacked [to pieces]’
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hǫggva (verb): to strike, put to death, cut, hew
[5] höggvin: so 471, höggin 343a
notes
[5-6] skal hlíf höggvin ‘the shield will be hacked [to pieces]’: Hlif ‘the shield’ lit. ‘protection’. Höggvin or höggin (so 343a) is a f. form of the p. p. of the verb höggva ‘hew, cut’ (ANG §503). This is an elliptical passive construction in which the inf. vera ‘be’ has been left out (cf. LT: 2vera).
hlíf ‘the shield’
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hlíf (noun f.; °-ar; -ar): shield, defence
notes
[5-6] skal hlíf höggvin ‘the shield will be hacked [to pieces]’: Hlif ‘the shield’ lit. ‘protection’. Höggvin or höggin (so 343a) is a f. form of the p. p. of the verb höggva ‘hew, cut’ (ANG §503). This is an elliptical passive construction in which the inf. vera ‘be’ has been left out (cf. LT: 2vera).
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
brjósti ‘breast’
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brjóst (noun n.; °-s; -): breast, chest
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
sjónum ‘your eyes’
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sjón (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): eyes, sight
svart ‘black’
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svartr (adj.): black
at ‘’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
ganga ‘will go’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
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This stanza is introduced by the words: Ketill kvað ‘Ketill said’ immediately after Ket 8.
[5-8]: Kock (NN §2391) argues that the pron. þér ‘you’ dat. sg., should be omitted as it is in 471 and several other mss. The half-stanza then refers to the defeat and death of the speaker (Ketill) rather than to that of his opponent (Gusi). The entire stanza could then be paraphrased as: ‘I will sooner die (second half-stanza) than flee from you (first half-stanza)’. With the pron. þér the paraphrase would be: ‘You will die (second half-stanza) sooner than I flee from you (first half-stanza)’. Kock supports his contention by adducing Ket 11/5-8.
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