Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 12’ 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, pp. 769-70.
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
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kappsamr (adj.): vigorous
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
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konungdómr (noun m.): [kingdom]
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Hákon (noun m.): Hákon
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
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hríð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): time, storm
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nøkkurr (pron.): some, a certain
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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sex (num. cardinal): six
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vetr (noun m.; °vetrar/vetrs(HómHauksb³ 173²³), dat. vetri; vetr): winter
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samr (adj.; °compar. -ari): same
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3. at (prep.): at, to
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
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tírargjarn (adj.): fame-eager
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
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tuttugu (num. cardinal): twenty
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The number of years given for Hákon’s rule tallies with those of HákgóðHkr (ÍF 26, 182) and Fsk (ÍF 29, 94). HN (MHN 106) and ÓH (1941, 18) have twenty-seven years (counting the year he ruled jointly with his brother Eiríkr). Theodoricus (MHN 9) gives twenty-five years and Ágr (ÍF 29, 9) has twenty-four years. See Ólafía Einarsdóttir 1964, 174-7. — [1] kappsamr ‘vigorous’: See Note to st. 4/1.
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