Gestumbl Heiðr 2VIII (Heiðr 49)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 49 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 411.
Heiman ‘home’
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heiman (adv.): from home
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
fór ‘went from’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
[1] fór: om. 2845, heiman fór 203ˣ
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
gerðak ‘made’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
[2] gerðak: gerða 2845, í dag 281ˣ, 597bˣ, gærdag R715ˣ
sá ‘saw’
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2. sjá (verb): see
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
veg ‘the way’
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1. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar/-ir, gen. -a/-na, acc. -a/-i/-u): way, path, side
vega ‘ways’
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1. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar/-ir, gen. -a/-na, acc. -a/-i/-u): way, path, side
[3] vega: so 2845, 281ˣ, 597bˣ, R715ˣ, ‘w[…]g[…]’ Hb, ‘vega war þenn’ 203ˣ
vegr ‘a way’
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1. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar/-ir, gen. -a/-na, acc. -a/-i/-u): way, path, side
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
undir ‘under’
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undir (prep.): under
[4] undir: þeim vegr undir 2845, þar vegr undir R715ˣ
vegr ‘a way’
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1. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar/-ir, gen. -a/-na, acc. -a/-i/-u): way, path, side
[5] vegr: om. 281ˣ, yfir 597bˣ
yfir ‘over’
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yfir (prep.): over
[5] yfir: vegr í corrected from vegr in the margin in another hand 597bˣ
vegr ‘a way’
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1. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar/-ir, gen. -a/-na, acc. -a/-i/-u): way, path, side
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
[6] á: var 281ˣ, um corrected from á in the margin in another hand 597bˣ
vega ‘ways’
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1. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar/-ir, gen. -a/-na, acc. -a/-i/-u): way, path, side
[6] vega: vega corrected from vegr 2845, vegu 281ˣ, vegr 597bˣ
Heiðrekr ‘Heiðrekr’
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Heiðrekr (noun m.): Heiðrekr
konungr ‘King’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
hyggðu ‘think’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
[8] hyggðu (‘hygg þú’): so 2845, 597bˣ, 203ˣ, ‘h·’ Hb, hygg 281ˣ, ‘h:’ R715ˣ
at ‘about’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
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King Heiðrekr’s response reads (Heiðr 1960, 33): þar fórtu yfir árbrú, ok var árvegr undir þér, en fuglar flugu yfir hǫfði þér ok hjá þér tveim megin, ok var þat þeira vegr ‘There you went over a river-bridge, and the river-way was under you, and birds flew over your head and next to you on both sides, and that was their way’. Hb adds (Heiðr 1924, 58): þú sátt lax í ánni, ok var þat hans vegr ‘you saw a salmon in the river, and that was his way’, but this is superfluous since the árvegr ‘river-way’ has already been mentioned. Tolkien (Heiðr 1960, 33 n. 3) suggests that l. 6 may refer to the ‘Earth-way’, so that each riddling-line refers to one of river, sky, earth. But as he also notes, there is no extant textual evidence for this possibility. — [1-2]: As Tolkien (Heiðr 1960, 33 n. 2) notes, these lines are paralleled in Fj 46/1-2 (Guðni Jónsson 1949-54, II, 533): Hvaðan þú fórt, | hvaðan þú för gerðir ‘From where have you come, | from where have you made your journey’?
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