Hjálm Lv 14VIII (Ǫrv 24)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 24 (Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri, Lausavísur 14)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 838.
Sé ‘see’
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2. sjá (verb): see
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hvar ‘where’
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hvar (adv.): where
sitja ‘sit’
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sitja (verb): sit
Sigtúnum ‘Sigtuna’
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Sigtúnir (noun f.): Sigtuna
fljóð ‘women’
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fljóð (noun n.): woman
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
löttu ‘dissuaded’
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letja (verb): deprive
farar ‘journey’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
[4] farar: so all others, fara 344a
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
Gleðr ‘will gladden’
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gleðja (verb): gladden, rejoice
eigi ‘Neither’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
höll ‘hall’
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1. hǫll (noun f.; °hallar, dat. -u/-; hallir): hall
konungs ‘the king’s’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
öl ‘ale’
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ǫl (noun n.; °-s; -): ale
né ‘nor’
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né (conj.): nor
rekkar ‘warriors’
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rekkr (noun m.; °; -ar): man, champion
[7] rekkar: so 343a, 173ˣ, ríki 344a, rekka 471
notes
[7] rekkar ‘warriors’: Ms. 344a alone has ríki ‘power, rule, kingdom’, a less good reading from the point of view of sense, as Hjálmarr was a heroic warrior, rather than a ruler.
aldr ‘ever’
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aldr (noun m.; °aldrs, dat. aldri; aldrar): life, age
[8] um aldr: aldri 343a, 471, 173ˣ
síðan ‘afterwards’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
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This stanza is the last of the sequence of eight stanzas, beginning with Hjálm 11 (Ǫrv 21) that forms the main part of Hjálmarr’s death-song in the Ǫrv mss. After it the younger mss (343a, 471 and 173ˣ) follow with Ǫrv 25-9, and then there is a final prose passage in all Ǫrv mss which concludes with Ǫrv 16 and 20, which are also in the mss of Heiðr.
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