Anon Nkt 2II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 2’ 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. 763.
Róa ‘row’
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2. róa (verb): row
skal ‘One must’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
fyrst ‘first’
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fyrstr (num. ordinal): first
fjarri ‘far from’
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fjarri (adv.): far, far from it, unlikely
reyði ‘the whale’
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reyðr (noun f.; °; -ar): whale, rorqual
notes
[2] reyði ‘the whale’: For reyðr ‘whale’, see Note to Steinn Óldr 11/7.
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[3] * koma (inf.) ‘come’: The conj. ok ‘and’ (so Flat) makes the l. hypermetrical and has been deleted in accordance with most earlier eds.
þó ‘yet’
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þó (adv.): though
niðr ‘down’
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3. niðr (adv.): down
nær ‘close’
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nær (adv.): near, almost; when
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
lúki ‘it is finished’
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1. lúka (verb): end, close
Þar ‘Now’
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þar (adv.): there
hefk ‘I have’
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hafa (verb): have
hugt ‘thought’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
hróðri ‘praise’
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hróðr (noun m.): encomium, praise
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[6] þessum hróðri (m. dat. sg.) ‘with this praise’: Taken as a dat. instr. here. Finnur Jónsson (LP: mynda) treats it tentatively as a dat. object of mynda ‘imitate’ (l. 8) (Skj B: efter de ord har jeg tænkt at indrette dette digt ‘according to those words I have planned to fashion this poem’), but mynda does not take a dat. object (see Fritzner: mynda).
þessum ‘with this’
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1. sjá (pron.; °gen. þessa dat. þessum/þeima, acc. þenna; f. sjá/þessi; n. þetta, dat. þessu/þvísa; pl. þessir): this
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[6] þessum hróðri (m. dat. sg.) ‘with this praise’: Taken as a dat. instr. here. Finnur Jónsson (LP: mynda) treats it tentatively as a dat. object of mynda ‘imitate’ (l. 8) (Skj B: efter de ord har jeg tænkt at indrette dette digt ‘according to those words I have planned to fashion this poem’), but mynda does not take a dat. object (see Fritzner: mynda).
orðum ‘words’
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orð (noun n.; °-s; -): word
eptir ‘’
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eptir (prep.): after, behind
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
mynda ‘imitate’
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1. mynda (verb): shape
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[1-4]: ‘One must first row far from the whale, yet come down close before it is finished’, i.e. if one wants to catch a whale, one must approach it from afar. This saying, with which the poet draws an analogy between hunting a whale and composing a long genealogical poem, refers to his intention to begin Jón’s panegyric by tracing his ancestry back to Haraldr hárfagri. His praise of the family of the Oddaverjar (people from the farmstead Oddi, southern Iceland), i.e. his homing in on the whale, begins at st. 67. — [7-8] eptir þeim orðum ‘those words’: Lit. ‘after those words’. I.e. the saying contained in ll. 1-4.
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