Hjálm Lv 12VIII (Ǫrv 22)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 22 (Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri, Lausavísur 12)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 837.
Hvarf ‘parted’
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1. hverfa (verb): turn, disappear
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
ungri ‘young’
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ungr (adj.): young
Ingibjörgu ‘Ingibjǫrg’
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Ingibjǫrg (noun f.): Ingibjǫrg
skjótt ‘quickly’
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2. skjótr (adj.): quick(ly)
notes
[3] skjótt réð um þat ‘that was quickly decided’: Treated here as an impersonal intercalary clause. Both Skj and Skald have rézk, based on the readings of the younger mss, and construe skjótt rézk of þat á skapadægri ‘I decided swiftly about that on the fated day’.
réð ‘decided’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
[3] réð: ‘redk’ or ‘redh’ 343a, réð ek 471, 173ˣ
notes
[3] skjótt réð um þat ‘that was quickly decided’: Treated here as an impersonal intercalary clause. Both Skj and Skald have rézk, based on the readings of the younger mss, and construe skjótt rézk of þat á skapadægri ‘I decided swiftly about that on the fated day’.
um ‘was’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
notes
[3] skjótt réð um þat ‘that was quickly decided’: Treated here as an impersonal intercalary clause. Both Skj and Skald have rézk, based on the readings of the younger mss, and construe skjótt rézk of þat á skapadægri ‘I decided swiftly about that on the fated day’.
þat ‘that’
notes
[3] skjótt réð um þat ‘that was quickly decided’: Treated here as an impersonal intercalary clause. Both Skj and Skald have rézk, based on the readings of the younger mss, and construe skjótt rézk of þat á skapadægri ‘I decided swiftly about that on the fated day’.
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
skapa ‘the fated’
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1. skap (noun n.; °-s; *-): mind, fate < skapadœgr (noun n.): [his fated day]
[3] skapa‑: ‘skara’ 173ˣ
dægri ‘day’
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dœgr (noun n.; °-s; -): day and night; 24h period < skapadœgr (noun n.): [his fated day]
Sá ‘That’
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
fljóði ‘woman’
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fljóð (noun n.): woman
fast ‘firm’
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fastr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): firm, fast < fastnæmr (adj.)
næmr ‘grasping’
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næmr (adj.; °superl. -astr/-str): [practised, taking] < fastnæmr (adj.)
tregi ‘grief’
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tregi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): sorrow
er ‘since’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
síðan ‘again’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
sjámz ‘shall never see’
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2. sjá (verb): see
[7] sjámz aldrigi: mik sér aldrigi 343a, 471, sér mik aldrigi 173ˣ
aldrigi ‘each other’
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aldrigi (adv.): never
[7] sjámz aldrigi: mik sér aldrigi 343a, 471, sér mik aldrigi 173ˣ
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This stanza is the fourth in the sequence beginning with Ǫrv 21, followed by Ǫrv 9 and 7. There is no intervening prose.
In the Ǫrv mss, the sequence of stanzas Ǫrv 11, 9, 7, 12 and 13 share common themes: Hjálmarr’s concern with the women of the Swedish court, his reluctant parting from them and, in particular, his parting with Ingibjörg. — As pointed out in the Note to Ǫrv 18/7-8, there is a considerable similarity between that stanza, especially in the Ǫrv versions, and the present one. The name Ingibjörg also occurs in both. — [5-8]: In this edn the clause er vit síðan sjámz aldrigi ‘since we two shall never see each other again’ (ll. 7-8) has been treated as generally explanatory, but it is also possible to understand the er-clause, as Skj B does, as referring narrowly to sá tregi ‘that grief’ (ll. 5, 6), explaining what the grief consists in.
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