KrákÁsl Lv 1VIII (Ragn 2)
Rory McTurk (ed.) 2017, ‘Ragnars saga loðbrókar 2 (Kráka/Áslaug Sigurðardóttir, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 629.
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[1] Þori ek eigi boð brjóta: ‘[…]’ 147
boð ‘the command’
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boð (noun n.; °-s; -): command, offer, feast
[1] Þori ek eigi boð brjóta: ‘[…]’ 147
brjóta ‘disobey’
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brjóta (verb; °brýtr; braut, brutu; brotinn): to break, destroy
[1] Þori ek eigi boð brjóta: ‘[…]’ 147
báðuð ‘have bidden’
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biðja (verb; °biðr; bað, báðu; beðinn (beiþ- Martin¹ 573, bỏþ- HákEirsp 661, cf. ed. intr. xl)): ask for, order, pray
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
ganga ‘attend’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
[2] ganga: ‘(ganga)’(?) 147
notes
[2, 4] ganga stefnu við þik ‘attend upon you’: I.e. ‘keep an appointment with you’. Cf. Olsen (Ragn 1906-8, 196), and Nygaard (NS §91 (c)).
kvöð ‘summons’
[3] kvöð: ‘kavþ’ 1824b, ‘[…]’ 147
Ragnarr ‘Ragnarr’
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Ragnarr (noun m.): Ragnarr
[4] Ragnarr við þik stefnu: ‘[…] (st[…])’(?) 147
við ‘upon’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
[4] Ragnarr við þik stefnu: ‘[…] (st[…])’(?) 147
notes
[2, 4] ganga stefnu við þik ‘attend upon you’: I.e. ‘keep an appointment with you’. Cf. Olsen (Ragn 1906-8, 196), and Nygaard (NS §91 (c)).
þik ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[4] Ragnarr við þik stefnu: ‘[…] (st[…])’(?) 147
notes
[2, 4] ganga stefnu við þik ‘attend upon you’: I.e. ‘keep an appointment with you’. Cf. Olsen (Ragn 1906-8, 196), and Nygaard (NS §91 (c)).
stefnu ‘’
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1. stefna (noun f.; °-u; -ur): encounter, meeting
[4] Ragnarr við þik stefnu: ‘[…] (st[…])’(?) 147
notes
[2, 4] ganga stefnu við þik ‘attend upon you’: I.e. ‘keep an appointment with you’. Cf. Olsen (Ragn 1906-8, 196), and Nygaard (NS §91 (c)).
Manngi ‘There’
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manngi (pron.): no
[5] Manngi er mér í sinni: ‘([…] mi) […] (j s[…]ni)’(?) 147
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
[5] Manngi er mér í sinni: ‘([…] mi) […] (j s[…]ni)’(?) 147
mér ‘no person’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[5] Manngi er mér í sinni: ‘([…] mi) […] (j s[…]ni)’(?) 147
sinni ‘company’
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2. sinni (noun n.; °-s;): time, occasion; company, following
[5] Manngi er mér í sinni: ‘([…] mi) […] (j s[…]ni)’(?) 147
mitt ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
[6] mitt er bert hörund eigi: ‘(mitt) […](t) hörund […]’(?) 147
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
[6] mitt er bert hörund eigi: ‘(mitt) […](t) hörund […]’(?) 147
bert ‘bare’
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2. berr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): bare
[6] mitt er bert hörund eigi: ‘(mitt) […](t) hörund […]’(?) 147
hörund ‘flesh’
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2. hǫrund (noun n.; °-s): flesh
[6] mitt er bert hörund eigi: ‘(mitt) […](t) hörund […]’(?) 147
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
[6] mitt er bert hörund eigi: ‘(mitt) […](t) hörund […]’(?) 147
fylgi ‘escort’
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2. fylgi (noun n.): [followers]
[7] fylgi hefi ek fullgótt: ‘(fylg[…] h[…]fi ek f[…]llg[…]tt)’(?) 147
hefi ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
[7] fylgi hefi ek fullgótt: ‘(fylg[…] h[…]fi ek f[…]llg[…]tt)’(?) 147
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[7] fylgi hefi ek fullgótt: ‘(fylg[…] h[…]fi ek f[…]llg[…]tt)’(?) 147
fullgótt ‘a perfectly good’
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fullgóðr (adj.): [good enough]
[7] fylgi hefi ek fullgótt: ‘(fylg[…] h[…]fi ek f[…]llg[…]tt)’(?) 147
fer ‘come’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
[8] fer ek ein saman mínu: ‘(fer ek) […] (saman minu)’(?) 147
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[8] fer ek ein saman mínu: ‘(fer ek) […] (saman minu)’(?) 147
ein ‘’
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1. einn (num. cardinal; °f. ein, n. eitt; pl. einir; superl. debil. -asti(Anna238(2001) 155³²)): one; alone
[8] fer ek ein saman mínu: ‘(fer ek) […] (saman minu)’(?) 147
saman ‘alone’
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saman (adv.): together
[8] fer ek ein saman mínu: ‘(fer ek) […] (saman minu)’(?) 147
mínu ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
[8] fer ek ein saman mínu: ‘(fer ek) […] (saman minu)’(?) 147
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At Spangereid in Norway, Ragnarr hears of a woman no less beautiful than Þóra. Unknown to all but herself, this is Áslaug, the daughter of Sigurðr and Brynhildr. She has been brought up as a drudge at Spangereid by some poor farmers who found her as a child after murdering her foster-father, gave her the name Kráka ‘Crow’, and seek to pass her off as their own daughter. Covered only by a net and her long hair, with a taste of leek on her lips, and bringing a dog with her, Kráka-Áslaug here claims to have fulfilled Ragnarr’s request that she should visit him ‘neither clad nor unclad, neither fed nor unfed, neither alone nor in company’.
[5-8]: Kráka-Áslaug refers here to only two of the three conditions under which Ragnarr, in the prose of the saga, has given orders for her to visit him; she omits mention of ‘neither fed nor unfed’ (see Context, above, and Ragn 1906-8, 124-5; the omission is signalled by italics in CPB’s translation: ‘I have smelt but at a leek’). The motifs in Ragn of the three conditions, and of Kráka-Áslaug’s use of a dog in fulfilling the third of them, may reflect a combination of two folktale-types, on the one hand AT no. 875, ‘the clever peasant girl’, and for the motif of a dog as a companion, AT no. 981, ‘wisdom of hidden old man saves kingdom’. See further de Vries (1928b, 14-29, 176-232), and McTurk (1991a, 204‑11).
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