Ásb Lv 1VIII (OStór 2)
Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Orms þáttr Stórólfssonar 2 (Ásbjǫrn, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 605.
Sagði ‘She told’
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segja (verb): say, tell
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
á ‘through’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
notes
[1] á seiði ‘through magic rites’: Seiðr was a form of sorcery said to have been employed by women and a few men (as well as the god Óðinn) to bring about some change, usually for the worse, in a human being, or to predict whether the forthcoming season or harvest would be good or bad. Descriptions of the rituals accompanying seiðr indicate that the practitioners usually sat on a platform of some kind, and that chants were sung either by the seeress or her female assistants. The locus classicus in Old Norse literature is Eir ch. 4 (ÍF 4, 206-9). See further Strömbäck (1935) and Meulengracht Sørensen (1983, 19).
seiði ‘magic rites’
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1. seiðr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-): spell, magic
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[1] á seiði ‘through magic rites’: Seiðr was a form of sorcery said to have been employed by women and a few men (as well as the god Óðinn) to bring about some change, usually for the worse, in a human being, or to predict whether the forthcoming season or harvest would be good or bad. Descriptions of the rituals accompanying seiðr indicate that the practitioners usually sat on a platform of some kind, and that chants were sung either by the seeress or her female assistants. The locus classicus in Old Norse literature is Eir ch. 4 (ÍF 4, 206-9). See further Strömbäck (1935) and Meulengracht Sørensen (1983, 19).
söng ‘sang’
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sǫngr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -vi/-; -var): song
[2] söng: ok söng 2845, söng ek 554h βˣ
notes
[2] söng um þat löngum ‘sang of it at length’: The version of Flat, which is adopted here, is in málaháttr. The lines of this stanza are metrically irregular, though most have six metrical positions. Skj B adopts ok söng from 2845 to give a six-syllable line, but this is unmetrical. As Faulkes (2011b, 93 n.) points out, 5-syllable lines are found elsewhere in the stanzas of OStór, viz. in st. 11/2 and 11/4. Kock (NN §2620) discusses other ways of regularising the line, and in Skald chooses to emend to the metrically acceptable sǫng um þat fyr lǫngu ‘sang of it a long time ago’.
um ‘of’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
notes
[2] söng um þat löngum ‘sang of it at length’: The version of Flat, which is adopted here, is in málaháttr. The lines of this stanza are metrically irregular, though most have six metrical positions. Skj B adopts ok söng from 2845 to give a six-syllable line, but this is unmetrical. As Faulkes (2011b, 93 n.) points out, 5-syllable lines are found elsewhere in the stanzas of OStór, viz. in st. 11/2 and 11/4. Kock (NN §2620) discusses other ways of regularising the line, and in Skald chooses to emend to the metrically acceptable sǫng um þat fyr lǫngu ‘sang of it a long time ago’.
þat ‘it’
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[2] söng um þat löngum ‘sang of it at length’: The version of Flat, which is adopted here, is in málaháttr. The lines of this stanza are metrically irregular, though most have six metrical positions. Skj B adopts ok söng from 2845 to give a six-syllable line, but this is unmetrical. As Faulkes (2011b, 93 n.) points out, 5-syllable lines are found elsewhere in the stanzas of OStór, viz. in st. 11/2 and 11/4. Kock (NN §2620) discusses other ways of regularising the line, and in Skald chooses to emend to the metrically acceptable sǫng um þat fyr lǫngu ‘sang of it a long time ago’.
löngum ‘at length’
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langr (adj.; °compar. lengri, superl. lengstr): long
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[2] söng um þat löngum ‘sang of it at length’: The version of Flat, which is adopted here, is in málaháttr. The lines of this stanza are metrically irregular, though most have six metrical positions. Skj B adopts ok söng from 2845 to give a six-syllable line, but this is unmetrical. As Faulkes (2011b, 93 n.) points out, 5-syllable lines are found elsewhere in the stanzas of OStór, viz. in st. 11/2 and 11/4. Kock (NN §2620) discusses other ways of regularising the line, and in Skald chooses to emend to the metrically acceptable sǫng um þat fyr lǫngu ‘sang of it a long time ago’.
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
notes
[3] á feigum fæti ‘on feet fated to die’: Lit. ‘on a doomed foot’.
feigum ‘fated to die’
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feigr (adj.; °compar. -ari/ri): fated to die, fey, dead
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[3] á feigum fæti ‘on feet fated to die’: Lit. ‘on a doomed foot’.
fæti ‘feet’
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1. fótr (noun m.): foot, leg
notes
[3] á feigum fæti ‘on feet fated to die’: Lit. ‘on a doomed foot’.
færik ‘would travel’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
[4] færik (‘færig’): færa ek 2845, ‘fære’ 554h βˣ
norðr ‘north’
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2. norðr (adv.): north
á ‘to’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
Mæri ‘Møre’
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Mœri (noun f.): [møre]
Vætki ‘nothing’
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vættki (noun n.; °vettugis/vettergis, dat. vettugi): nothing
[5] Vætki: ‘uækki’ 2845, mælti 554h βˣ
völva ‘The seeress’
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vǫlva (noun f.; °vǫlu/vǫlvu; vǫlur/vǫlvur): seeress
[5] vissi völva: ‘visa vǫlvan’ 554h βˣ
vera ‘be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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
enn ‘still’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
með ‘among’
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með (prep.): with
mönnum ‘men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
glaðr ‘glad’
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2. glaðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): cheerful, glad
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
notes
[7] í Gautaveldi ‘in the realm of the Gautar’: Probably here intended to refer to the inhabitants of Gautland, the region of Southern Sweden now encompassing the provinces of Västergötland and Östergötland.
Gautaveldi ‘the realm of the Gautar’
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Gautaveldi (noun n.)
[7] Gautaveldi: Gautlandi 554h βˣ
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[7] í Gautaveldi ‘in the realm of the Gautar’: Probably here intended to refer to the inhabitants of Gautland, the region of Southern Sweden now encompassing the provinces of Västergötland and Östergötland.
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[8] gramir ‘trolls’: Lit. ‘furious, angry ones’, a substantival adj. often used in the pl. to refer to trolls or other fiends.
eigi ‘take’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
[8] gramir eigi: grenna ei 554h βˣ
hennar ‘her’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
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After harrying together for two years, Ormr and Ásbjǫrn spend the winter with Jarl Herrǫðr in Gautland, Southern Sweden. While drinking one day Ásbjǫrn refers to the sibyl’s prophecy with this stanza.
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