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KrákÁsl Lv 7^VIII (Ragn 18)

Rory McTurk (ed.) 2017, ‘Ragnars saga loðbrókar 18 (Kráka/Áslaug Sigurðardóttir, Lausavísur 7)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 661.

Kráka/Áslaug Sigurðardóttir Lausavísur

6 7 8

Eigi ‘not’

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3. eigi (adv.): not

[1] Eigi: so Hb, ei 1824b, ‘(Eigi)’(?) 147

notes

[1]: The relatively archaic forms eigi (147, Hb) and yðvar (147) are clearly preferable metrically to the ei and yðar of 1824b.

mundi ‘would’

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munu (verb): will, must

notes

[1]: The relatively archaic forms eigi (147, Hb) and yðvar (147) are clearly preferable metrically to the ei and yðar of 1824b.

yðvar ‘You’

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yðvarr (pron.; °f. yður; pl. yðrir): your

[1] yðvar: ‘(yduar)’(?) so 147, yðar 1824b, Hb

notes

[1]: The relatively archaic forms eigi (147, Hb) and yðvar (147) are clearly preferable metrically to the ei and yðar of 1824b.

óhefnt ‘unavenged’

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óhefndr (adj./verb p.p.)

[2] óhefnt vera lengi: ‘ef (þier d)[…]’(?) 147, ef ér dæið fyrri Hb

vera ‘be’

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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am

[2] óhefnt vera lengi: ‘ef (þier d)[…]’(?) 147, ef ér dæið fyrri Hb

lengi ‘long’

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lengi (adv.): for a long time

[2] óhefnt vera lengi: ‘ef (þier d)[…]’(?) 147, ef ér dæið fyrri Hb

eitt ‘[not]’

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1. einn (num. cardinal; °f. ein, n. eitt; pl. einir; superl. debil. -asti(Anna238(2001) 155³²)): one; alone

misseri ‘one half-year’

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misseri (noun n.; °-s; -): season

[3] misseri: ‘m(i)sser(i)’(?) 147, missari Hb

eptir ‘afterwards’

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eptir (prep.): after, behind

ef ‘if’

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3. ef (conj.): if

[4] ef ér dæið fyrri: ‘(ohefnt) vera bræðra’(?) 147, óhefnt vera bræðra Hb

ér ‘you’

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ér (pron.; °gen. yðvar/yðar, dat./acc. yðr): you

[4] ef ér dæið fyrri: ‘(ohefnt) vera bræðra’(?) 147, óhefnt vera bræðra Hb

dæið ‘were to die’

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1. deyja (verb; °deyr; dó, dó(u); dá(i)nn): die

[4] ef ér dæið fyrri: ‘(ohefnt) vera bræðra’(?) 147, óhefnt vera bræðra Hb

fyrri ‘first’

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2. fyrri (adv.): before, previously

[4] ef ér dæið fyrri: ‘(ohefnt) vera bræðra’(?) 147, óhefnt vera bræðra Hb

lítt ‘hardly’

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lítt (adv.): a bit

notes

[5] lítt hirði ek ‘I hardly care’: The Hb reading lítt ráðumz ‘I [would] hardly undertake …’, which gives perfectly good sense in the context, is adopted in CPB (lítt rꜵ́ðumk) and by Finnur Jónsson in his edn of Hb (Hb 1892-6), but not by him in Skj B or by any other ed.

hirði ‘care’

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hirða (verb): hide, care for

[5] hirði ek: ‘h[…]d(i e)g’(?) 147, ráðumz Hb

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ek ‘I’

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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me

[5] hirði ek: ‘h[…]d(i e)g’(?) 147, ráðumz Hb

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[6] ef líf hafa knætti: ‘(ef lif hafa) […]’(?) 147

líf ‘lives’

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líf (noun n.; °-s; -): life

[6] ef líf hafa knætti: ‘(ef lif hafa) […]’(?) 147

hafa ‘had’

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hafa (verb): have

[6] ef líf hafa knætti: ‘(ef lif hafa) […]’(?) 147

knætti ‘’

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knega (verb): to know, understand, be able to

[6] ef líf hafa knætti: ‘(ef lif hafa) […]’(?) 147

Eiríkr ‘Eiríkr’

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Eiríkr (noun m.): Eiríkr

[7] Eiríkr sitt ok Agnarr: ‘[…] sitt (og agnar)’(?) 147

sitt ‘their’

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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)

[7] Eiríkr sitt ok Agnarr: ‘[…] sitt (og agnar)’(?) 147

ok ‘and’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

[7] Eiríkr sitt ok Agnarr: ‘[…] sitt (og agnar)’(?) 147

Agnarr ‘Agnarr’

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Agnarr (noun m.): Agnarr

[7] Eiríkr sitt ok Agnarr: ‘[…] sitt (og agnar)’(?) 147

óbornir ‘not born’

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óborinn (adj./verb p.p.)

notes

[8] niðjar óbornir mér ‘descendants not born to me’: Note that Áslaug is happy to regard her stepsons Eiríkr and Agnarr as ‘descendants’, even though they are not her biological sons. Cf. the Notes to 16/1-4 (f) and 20/7.

mér ‘to me’

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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me

[8] mér niðjar: ‘(mi)er (nidi)ar’(?) 147

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niðjar ‘descendants’

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1. niðr (noun m.; °-s; niðjar/niðir, acc. niði): son, kinsman, relative

[8] mér niðjar: ‘(mi)er (nidi)ar’(?) 147

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Áslaug here points out to her sons that if they had died and her stepsons, Eiríkr and Agnarr, were still alive, they, their stepbrothers, would have been quick to avenge them.

[1-4]: It will be clear from the Readings above that the 1824b text of this stanza differs from those of 147 and Hb in the first half-stanza in that ll. 2 and 4 of 1824b appear in Hb and 147 in reverse order, and Hb and 147 have the reading bræðra in place of 1824b’s lengi (l. 2). The meaning thus emerging from ll. 1, 4 in Hb and 147 (cf. ll. 1-2 in 1824b) would be: ‘You brothers would not be unavenged …’, with bræðra used appositively with the gen. 2nd pers. pl. pron. yðvar as a gen. object of óhefnt ‘unavenged’. In 1824b, which is followed in the present edn, it is yðvar alone that is the gen. object of óhefnt. Among previous eds of the half-stanza, Rafn (FSN) and Valdimar Ásmundarson (Ragn 1891) follow 1824b. Finnur Jónsson (Hb 1892-6) naturally follows the Hb text; less naturally, perhaps, so do Vigfusson and Powell (CPB) and Örnólfur Thorsson (Ragn 1985). All other eds, as well as Finnur Jónsson in Skj B, follow the line ordering of 1824b but read bræðra in place of lengi in l. 2, thus giving the same meaning as that emerging from Hb and 147: ‘You brothers would not be unavenged …’. A justification for choosing bræðra over lengi might be that lengi ‘long’ could be thought of as contradicting eitt misseri eptir ‘one half-year afterwards’ in l. 3. This difficulty is avoided, however, if the two phrases are considered to be in apposition, with eigi ‘not’ (l. 1) applying to both.

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KrákÁsl Lv 7VIII (Ragn 18)

Eigi ‘not’

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mundi ‘would’

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yðvar ‘You’

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óhefnt ‘unavenged’

vera ‘be’

lengi ‘long’

eitt ‘[not]’

misseri ‘one half-year’

eptir ‘afterwards’

ef ‘if’

ér ‘you’

dæið ‘were to die’

fyrri ‘first’

lítt ‘hardly’

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hirði ‘care’

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ek ‘I’

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því ‘of it’

leyna ‘to make a secret’

ef ‘if’

líf ‘lives’

hafa ‘had’

knætti ‘’

Eiríkr ‘Eiríkr’

sitt ‘their’

ok ‘and’

Agnarr ‘Agnarr’

óbornir ‘not born’

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mér ‘to me’

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niðjar ‘descendants’

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