KrákÁsl Lv 8VIII (Ragn 25)
Rory McTurk (ed.) 2017, ‘Ragnars saga loðbrókar 25 (Kráka/Áslaug Sigurðardóttir, Lausavísur 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 675.
Þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[1] Þér ann ek serk inn síða: ‘þ(er) […](n) eg serk en sida’(?) 147
ann ‘am giving’
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1. unna (verb): love
[1] Þér ann ek serk inn síða: ‘þ(er) […](n) eg serk en sida’(?) 147
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[1] Þér ann ek serk inn síða: ‘þ(er) […](n) eg serk en sida’(?) 147
serk ‘shirt’
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1. serkr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ir): shirt
[1] Þér ann ek serk inn síða: ‘þ(er) […](n) eg serk en sida’(?) 147
inn ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
[1] Þér ann ek serk inn síða: ‘þ(er) […](n) eg serk en sida’(?) 147
síða ‘long’
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1. síðr (adj.; °compar. -ari): long, hanging
[1] Þér ann ek serk inn síða: ‘þ(er) […](n) eg serk en sida’(?) 147
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
[2] ok saumaðan hvergi: ‘og sau(mad)[…] (hver)[…](i)’(?) 147
saumaðan ‘sewn’
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sauma (verb): sew
[2] ok saumaðan hvergi: ‘og sau(mad)[…] (hver)[…](i)’(?) 147
hvergi ‘nowhere’
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2. hvergi (pron.): not, nowhere, neither
[2] ok saumaðan hvergi: ‘og sau(mad)[…] (hver)[…](i)’(?) 147
við ‘devotedly’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
[3] við hug ofinn heilan: ‘við heilan hvg ofnan’ 1824b, ‘(vid heilan) hug ofnann’(?) 147
hug ‘’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage
[3] við hug ofinn heilan: ‘við heilan hvg ofnan’ 1824b, ‘(vid heilan) hug ofnann’(?) 147
ofinn ‘woven’
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ofinn (adj./verb p.p.)
[3] við hug ofinn heilan: ‘við heilan hvg ofnan’ 1824b, ‘(vid heilan) hug ofnann’(?) 147
heilan ‘’
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3. heill (adj.; °heilan; compar. heilli, superl. -astr/-str): healthy, hale, hail
[3] við hug ofinn heilan: ‘við heilan hvg ofnan’ 1824b, ‘(vid heilan) hug ofnann’(?) 147
ór ‘out of’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
[4] ór hársíma gránu: ‘or hars[…]ma graní’ or ‘or hars[…]ma garní’ 1824b, ‘v(r) […]’(?) 147
hár ‘hair’
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2. hár (noun n.; °-s; -): hair < hársíma (noun n.)
[4] ór hársíma gránu: ‘or hars[…]ma graní’ or ‘or hars[…]ma garní’ 1824b, ‘v(r) […]’(?) 147
síma ‘thread’
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2. síma (noun n.): [band] < hársíma (noun n.)
[4] ór hársíma gránu: ‘or hars[…]ma graní’ or ‘or hars[…]ma garní’ 1824b, ‘v(r) […]’(?) 147
gránu ‘grey’
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gránn (adj.): grey
[4] ór hársíma gránu: ‘or hars[…]ma graní’ or ‘or hars[…]ma garní’ 1824b, ‘v(r) […]’(?) 147
ben ‘A wound’
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1. ben (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -; -jar , gen. -a(var. EiðKrC 402¹³: AM 77 4° D)): wound
[5] Mun eigi ben: ‘[…]’ 147
blæða ‘bleed’
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blœða (verb; °-dd-): bleed
bíta ‘cut’
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bíta (verb; °bítr; beit, bitu; bitinn): bite
[6] né bíta þik eggjar: ‘[…] ta þ(ig) eggiar’(?) 147
þik ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[6] né bíta þik eggjar: ‘[…] ta þ(ig) eggiar’(?) 147
eggjar ‘sword-edges’
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1. egg (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-): edge, blade
[6] né bíta þik eggjar: ‘[…] ta þ(ig) eggiar’(?) 147
heilagri ‘holy’
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heilagr (adj.; °helgan; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): holy, sacred
[7] í heilagri hjúpu: ‘(i heilagri híupu)’(?) 147
notes
[7] hjúpu ‘tunic’: This f. noun (nom. hjúpa), Olsen (Ragn 1906-8, 212) notes, is a variant of the more commonly attested hjúpr m. ‘doublet’, signifying a short, cape-like garment worn over a mail-coat; cf. ÍO: 1 hjúpa, 1 hopa, 2 hypja.
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
[8] var hon goðum signuð: ‘hun er þeim godum signud’ 147
hon ‘it’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[8] var hon goðum signuð: ‘hun er þeim godum signud’ 147
goðum ‘to the gods’
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goð (noun n.): (pagan) god
[8] var hon goðum signuð: ‘hun er þeim godum signud’ 147
signuð ‘consecrated’
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2. signa (verb): bless, consecrate
[8] var hon goðum signuð: ‘hun er þeim godum signud’ 147
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Just as Ragnarr is about to leave for England, Áslaug-Randalín gives him a protective shirt of hair, in return for the shift which, according to the prose introducing this stanza, he had given her.
On the shift for which Áslaug-Randalín is offering this shirt in return, see the Note to st. 5/1-4, above. Cf. Ǫlvǫr Lv 1 (Ǫrv 4), also in dróttkvætt, in which Ǫlvǫr, who becomes Ǫrvar-Oddr’s first wife, gives him a protective shirt which serves him well throughout his long career as a viking. — [3]: There is a twofold problem with this line. (a) The mss’ word order must be changed to produce a metrically regular line with alliteration in positions 2 and 5, and (b) the p. p. ‘ofnan’ (1824b) or ‘ofnann’ (147) must be emended to ofinn ‘woven’, m. acc. sg. p. p. of vefa ‘weave’, agreeing with and qualifying serk ‘shirt’ in l. 1, as do inn síða ‘the long’ and saumaðan ‘sewn’ in ll. 1 and 2. — [4]: Here the problem concerns the reading of the last word in this line, which is either ‘grani’ or ‘garni’ in 1824b and uncertain in 147. Most eds, including the present, follow Valdimar Ásmundarson (Ragn 1891), in emending to gránu ‘grey’, n. dat. sg. of adj. gránn ‘grey’, agreeing with and qualifying hársíma ‘hair-thread’. While Olsen (Ragn 1906-8, 212) and Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emend to gránu in l. 4, linking it syntactically to hársíma ‘hair-thread’, they also emend to ofnu, n. dat. sg. of p. p. ofinn ‘woven’ in l. 3, keeping the p. p. as the final word of l. 3 and making it agree attributively, like gránu, with hársíma, thus envisaging a garment of ‘grey, woven hair-thread’. Kock (NN §2371) rightly criticises as unnatural the linking by emendation of ofnu with hársíma. — [8]: The demonstrative pron. þeim ‘those [gods]’, which is present in 1824b, has been omitted in this edn, as in most others, in order to produce a regular metrical line.
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