Gusi Lv 5VIII (Ket 10)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 10 (Gusi finnakonungr, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 560.
Skaltu ‘You shall’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
gulli ‘gold’
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1. gulli (noun m.): [gold]
ger ‘treasures’
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ger- ((prefix)): [eager] < gǫrsemi (noun f.): costly thing, treasure
simum ‘’
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-semi (noun f.): [carnal] < gǫrsemi (noun f.): costly thing, treasure
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
heilum ‘a cheerful’
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3. heill (adj.; °heilan; compar. heilli, superl. -astr/-str): healthy, hale, hail
heima ‘at home’
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2. heima (adv.): at home
ráða ‘possess’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
Kemr ‘will’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
bani ‘Death’
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bani (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death, killer
brátt ‘quickly’
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bráðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): quick(ly)
at ‘strike’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
höndum ‘’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
[6] höndum: ‘hondum’ corrected from ‘hondu’ 471
ef ‘if’
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3. ef (conj.): if
vit ‘we two’
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1. vit (noun n.; °-s; -): wisdom, wit; visit
skulum ‘have to’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
úti ‘out here’
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úti (adv.): out, outdoors, out at sea, abroad
oddum ‘with weapon-points’
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oddr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): point of weapon
notes
[8] leika oddum ‘play with weapon-points’: A circumlocution for ‘do battle’ (cf. LP: 3. leika: 1-2); the noun oddr ‘point (of a weapon)’ is used as a synecdoche for the whole weapon (arrow, spear).
leika ‘play’
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3. leika (verb): play
notes
[8] leika oddum ‘play with weapon-points’: A circumlocution for ‘do battle’ (cf. LP: 3. leika: 1-2); the noun oddr ‘point (of a weapon)’ is used as a synecdoche for the whole weapon (arrow, spear).
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This stanza is introduced by the words Gusi kvað ‘Gusi said’ (343a) or Gusir kvað vísu ‘Gusir spoke a stanza’ (471) right after the end of Ket 9.
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