Keth Lv 6VIII (Ket 11)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 11 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 6)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 561.
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
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
gulli ‘gold’
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gull (noun n.): gold
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
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[2] við Gusi ‘with Gusir’: Gusi (acc.) is the strong form of the name Gusir/Gusi; see Note to Ket 3b/1.
Gusi ‘Gusir’
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Gusir (noun m.): Gusir
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[2] við Gusi ‘with Gusir’: Gusi (acc.) is the strong form of the name Gusir/Gusi; see Note to Ket 3b/1.
skipta ‘share’
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skipta (verb): share, divide, exchange
né ‘nor’
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né (conj.): nor
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[3] né heldr … fyrri ‘nor ever [be] the first’: Here the reading of 471 is to be preferred because it provides a metrical line. The adj. fyrri, translated as ‘the first’, is lit. comp. ‘the earlier’, but is often used with sup. meaning.
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[3] né heldr … fyrri ‘nor ever [be] the first’: Here the reading of 471 is to be preferred because it provides a metrical line. The adj. fyrri, translated as ‘the first’, is lit. comp. ‘the earlier’, but is often used with sup. meaning.
fyrri ‘the first’
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1. fyrri (adj. comp.; °superl. fyrstr): first
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[3] né heldr … fyrri ‘nor ever [be] the first’: Here the reading of 471 is to be preferred because it provides a metrical line. The adj. fyrri, translated as ‘the first’, is lit. comp. ‘the earlier’, but is often used with sup. meaning.
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
friðar ‘for peace’
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friðr (noun m.): peace
mæla ‘sue’
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1. mæla (verb): speak, say
Mér ‘for me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
bráðr ‘A quick’
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bráðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): quick(ly)
[5] bráðr bani: so 471, bragr 343a
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[5] bráðr bani ‘a quick death’: The reading of 471 is again preferable to that of 343a (and some other mss), whose bragr ‘the foremost, outstanding one’ or ‘poetry’ (cf. LP: 1. and 2. bragr) does not make sense in context.
bani ‘death’
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bani (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death, killer
[5] bráðr bani: so 471, bragr 343a
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[5] bráðr bani ‘a quick death’: The reading of 471 is again preferable to that of 343a (and some other mss), whose bragr ‘the foremost, outstanding one’ or ‘poetry’ (cf. LP: 1. and 2. bragr) does not make sense in context.
betri ‘better’
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betri (adj. comp.; °superl. beztr/baztr; pos. góðr adj.): better, best
miklu ‘much’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
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[7] en hugleysi ‘than lack of courage’: Again the reading of 471 is superior to that of 343a in terms of sense, because a word, alliterating on <h> and with negative, rather than positive connotations (so hugr ‘mind, courage’), is required to form a pair with l. 8.
hugleysi ‘lack of courage’
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2. hugleysi (noun n.)
[7] en hugleysi: so 471, en mér er hugr 343a
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[7] en hugleysi ‘than lack of courage’: Again the reading of 471 is superior to that of 343a in terms of sense, because a word, alliterating on <h> and with negative, rather than positive connotations (so hugr ‘mind, courage’), is required to form a pair with l. 8.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
heðan ‘from here’
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heðan (adv.): hence, from this place < heðankváma (noun f.)
kváma ‘escape’
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kváma (noun f.; °-u; -ur): coming < heðankváma (noun f.)
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