Anon Nkt 22II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 22’ 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. 775-6.
Sú ‘That’
kennings
Sú hríð Hrotta‘That blizzard of Hrotti ’
= BATTLE
That blizzard of Hrotti → BATTLE
vas ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
alls ‘very’
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allr (adj.): all
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
Ormr ‘Ormr (‘the Serpent’)’
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ormr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): serpent
notes
[2] Ormr ‘(“the Serpent”)’: The name of Óláfr Tryggvason’s flagship (Ormr inn langi ‘the Long Serpent’).
ryddisk ‘was cleared’
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2. ryðja (verb): to clear (free) land
Hrotta ‘of Hrotti’
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Hrotti (noun m.; °-a): sword
kennings
Sú hríð Hrotta‘That blizzard of Hrotti ’
= BATTLE
That blizzard of Hrotti → BATTLE
hríð ‘blizzard’
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hríð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): time, storm
kennings
Sú hríð Hrotta‘That blizzard of Hrotti ’
= BATTLE
That blizzard of Hrotti → BATTLE
hǫrð ‘hard’
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harðr (adj.; °comp. -ari; superl. -astr): hard, harsh
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
lengi ‘long’
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lengi (adv.): for a long time
Þar ‘That place’
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þar (adv.): there
hefir ‘’
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hafa (verb): have
ǫld ‘people’
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ǫld (noun f.; °; aldir): people, age
es ‘where’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
Óláfr ‘Óláfr’
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Óláfr (noun m.): Óláfr
fell ‘fell’
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falla (verb): fall
Svǫlðrarvág ‘the Bay of Svolder’
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Svǫldrarvágr (noun m.): [Bay of Svolder]
síðan ‘later’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
kallat ‘called’
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kalla (verb): call
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Óláfr Tryggvason was killed at the battle of Svolder (on 9 September 1000) against Eiríkr jarl Hákonarson of Norway, King Óláfr sœnski ‘the Swede’ Eiríksson of Sweden and King Sveinn tjúguskegg ‘Forkbeard’ Haraldsson of Denmark. See Theodoricus (MHN 23-4), HN (MHN 117-19), Ágr (ÍF 29, 22-4), Fsk (ÍF 29, 147-62), ÓTHkr (ÍF 26, 351-70). The location of Svolder has not been identified with certainty (see McDougall and McDougall 1998, 74-5 n. 113; Andersson 2003, 147 n. 1).
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