Anon Nkt 37II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 37’ 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. 785.
Þós ‘Yet there is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
máls ‘story’
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1. mál (noun n.; °-s; -): speech, matter
es ‘which’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
mæla ‘to tell’
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1. mæla (verb): speak, say
hygg ‘intend’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
meiri ‘greater’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
hlutr ‘part’
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hlutr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -i/-u): part, thing
miklu ‘a much’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
eptir ‘left’
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eptir (prep.): after, behind
Nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
skal ‘I shall’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
þat ‘that [story]’
[5] þat: því Flat
notes
[5] þat (n. acc. sg.) ‘that’: Því (n. dat. sg.) has been emended to þat with most earlier eds, because greiða ‘present, elucidate, expound’ (l. 6) takes the acc. Þat qualifies an understood mál ‘story’. See also Note to st. 73/3. The poet has so far recounted the lives of the kings of Norway from Haraldr hárfagri to Magnús inn góði according to Sæmundr’s history. But Magnús did not leave behind an heir who could succeed him on the Norw. throne; rather, the next king, Haraldr harðráði Sigurðarson (the great-great-grandfather of Jón Loptsson), traced his ancestry to Haraldr hárfagri through Sigurðr hrísi (see the next st.). Hence the poet now must back-paddle and begin a new story (mál) that has a direct bearing on the Oddaverjar, ‘the kin of princes which still lives’.
þaðan ‘henceforth’
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þaðan (adv.): from there
af ‘’
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af (prep.): from
greiða ‘present’
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greiða (verb): alleviate
jǫfra ‘of princes’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
kyns ‘of the kin’
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1. kyn (noun n.; °-s; -): kin
es ‘which’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
enn ‘still’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
lifir ‘lives’
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lifa (verb): live
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