Rloð Lv 3VIII (Ragn 4)
Rory McTurk (ed.) 2017, ‘Ragnars saga loðbrókar 4 (Ragnarr loðbrók, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 632.
Viltu ‘Are you willing’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
þiggja ‘to accept’
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þiggja (verb): receive, get
er ‘which’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
Þóra ‘Þóra’
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Þóra (noun f.): Þóra
notes
[2] Þóra hjörtr ‘Þóra hjǫrtr (“Hart”)’: In the prose of the saga, Þóra, when first introduced (Ragn 1906-8, 116), is said to have been called borgarhjörtr ‘Castle-hart’ because she surpassed all women in beauty, just as the hart surpasses other animals.
hjörtr ‘hjǫrtr (‘Hart’)’
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hjǫrtr (noun m.; °hjartar, dat. hirti (hjǫrt Æv¹ 58²²n.); hirtir, acc. hjǫrtu, (gen. hirta GlossPsalt 9¹²)): hart
notes
[2] Þóra hjörtr ‘Þóra hjǫrtr (“Hart”)’: In the prose of the saga, Þóra, when first introduced (Ragn 1906-8, 116), is said to have been called borgarhjörtr ‘Castle-hart’ because she surpassed all women in beauty, just as the hart surpasses other animals.
átti ‘possessed’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
serk ‘shift’
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1. serkr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ir): shirt
[3] serk: so 762ˣ, serkr 1824b
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
silfr ‘silver’
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silfr (noun n.; °-s): silver
um ‘out’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
notes
[3] um merktan ‘decked out’: Both mss here, and in the parallel st. 5/3, have the more archaic pleonastic particle of, which has been normalised here to the later um, in keeping with the practice of this volume to present texts in the language of the period 1250-1300. See further Ásm 1/3, 5 and Note there.
merktan ‘decked’
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merkja (verb): mark, signify
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[3] um merktan ‘decked out’: Both mss here, and in the parallel st. 5/3, have the more archaic pleonastic particle of, which has been normalised here to the later um, in keeping with the practice of this volume to present texts in the language of the period 1250-1300. See further Ásm 1/3, 5 and Note there.
allvel ‘very well’
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allvel (adv.): very well
notes
[4] allvel ‘very well’: All previous eds, including Olsen, accept this reading, on which the mss agree. Olsen (Ragn 1906-8, 198), however, notes a personal communication from Sophus Bugge suggesting that a n. pl. adj. such as allvæn meaning ‘very fine, splendid’, and qualifying klæði n. pl. ‘garments’ might have been expected here, as a contrast and balance to ælig ‘wretched’, used attributively with klæði in the corresponding l. 4 of Ragn 5.
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
klæði ‘garments’
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klæði (noun n.; °-s; -): clothes
Fóru ‘stroked’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
hendr ‘hands’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
notes
[5-6]: Apart from CPB, FSN, Ragn 1891, FSGJ and Ragn 1985, previous eds reverse the order of hendr and hennar here, presumably in order to give l. 5 six rather than five syllables. The present ed. follows those just named in retaining the 1824b reading (as opposed to that of 762ˣ, which has the Modern Icelandic disyllabic form hendur), accepting it as another of the metrical anomalies that characterise the stanzas of Ragn.
hvítar ‘white’
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hvítr (adj.; °-an; -ari, -astr): white
notes
[5-6]: Apart from CPB, FSN, Ragn 1891, FSGJ and Ragn 1985, previous eds reverse the order of hendr and hennar here, presumably in order to give l. 5 six rather than five syllables. The present ed. follows those just named in retaining the 1824b reading (as opposed to that of 762ˣ, which has the Modern Icelandic disyllabic form hendur), accepting it as another of the metrical anomalies that characterise the stanzas of Ragn.
hennar ‘Her’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[5-6]: Apart from CPB, FSN, Ragn 1891, FSGJ and Ragn 1985, previous eds reverse the order of hendr and hennar here, presumably in order to give l. 5 six rather than five syllables. The present ed. follows those just named in retaining the 1824b reading (as opposed to that of 762ˣ, which has the Modern Icelandic disyllabic form hendur), accepting it as another of the metrical anomalies that characterise the stanzas of Ragn.
um ‘’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
görvar ‘trappings’
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gervi (noun f.): gear, clothes
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
buðlungi ‘prince’
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buðlungr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, prince
kennings
blíðum buðlungi bragna‘to the joyful prince of men ’
= KING = Ragnarr
to the joyful prince of men → KING = Ragnarr
bragna ‘of men’
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bragnar (noun m.): men, warriors
kennings
blíðum buðlungi bragna‘to the joyful prince of men ’
= KING = Ragnarr
to the joyful prince of men → KING = Ragnarr
blíðum ‘to the joyful’
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blíðr (adj.; °n. sg. nom. & acc. blítt/blíðt; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): gentle, happy
[8] blíðum: ‘Brúd, mier’ 762ˣ
kennings
blíðum buðlungi bragna‘to the joyful prince of men ’
= KING = Ragnarr
to the joyful prince of men → KING = Ragnarr
þekk ‘dear’
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þekkr (adj.): pleasing
til ‘right up to’
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til (prep.): to
dauða ‘death’
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dauði (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death
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In an attempt to persuade Kráka-Áslaug to come away with him, Ragnarr offers her a richly embroidered shift which had belonged to his deceased wife Þóra.
It has not proved possible to recover meaningful traces of this or the next stanza from 147 in its present state of preservation. Nevertheless, it is likely that these two stanzas were present there on fol. 106v.
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