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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Nkt 9II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 768.

Anonymous PoemsNóregs konungatal
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Þá ‘Then’

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2. þá (adv.): then

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haugr ‘a magnificent mound’

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haugr (noun m.; °-s, -i; -ar): mound, cairn

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ept ‘in memory of’

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eptir (prep.): after, behind

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Harald ‘Haraldr’

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Haraldr (noun m.): Haraldr

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orpinn ‘erected’

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1. verpa (verb): to throw, cast (up)

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reisuligr ‘’

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reisuligr (adj.)

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á ‘in’

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3. á (prep.): on, at

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Rogalandi ‘Rogaland’

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Rogaland (noun n.): Rogaland

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mun ‘will be’

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munu (verb): will, must

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æ ‘very’

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2. æ (adv.): always, forever

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[5] æ ‘very’: Lit. ‘always’. The adv. is taken as an intensifier to lengi ‘long’ (see Fritzner: æ 1).

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uppi ‘remembered’

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uppi (adv.): up, up in

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lengi ‘ long time’

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lengi (adv.): for a long time

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hildings ‘ruler’

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hildingr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, ruler

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nafn ‘The name’

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nafn (noun n.; °-s; *-): name

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Halfdans ‘of Hálfdan’s’

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Halfdan (noun m.): Hálfdan

kennings

sonar Halfdans,
‘of Hálfdan’s son, ’
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Hálfdan’s son, → Haraldr
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sonar ‘son’

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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son

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sonar Halfdans,
‘of Hálfdan’s son, ’
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Hálfdan’s son, → Haraldr
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Haraldr was buried near Haugesund in Rogaland, south-western Norway. It appears that Snorri must have visited Haraldr’s place of burial when he was in Norway, because he describes it in detail. See HhárfHkr (ÍF 26, 147-8 and n. 2) and Storm 1900, 89 n. 1.

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