Anon Óldr 17I
Kate Heslop (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Óláfs drápa Tryggvasonar 17’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1049.
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tafni ‘carrion’
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tafn (noun n.; °-s; *-): carrion
Øx ‘The axe’
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øx (noun f.; °øxar/exar, dat. øxi/exi, acc. øxi/øx; -ar): axe
reið ‘swung’
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1. ríða (verb): ride
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
sveif ‘swept’
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svífa (verb): sweep
síðan ‘then’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
sund ‘of the sea’
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sund (noun n.; °-s; -): sound, strait; swimming < sundvargr (noun m.): [sea-wolf]
kennings
mǫrgum boða sundvargs;‘for many an offerer of the sea-wolf; ’
= SEAFARER
the sea-wolf; → SHIP
for many an offerer of the SHIP → SEAFARER
sund ‘of the sea’
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sund (noun n.; °-s; -): sound, strait; swimming < sundvargr (noun m.): [sea-wolf]
kennings
mǫrgum boða sundvargs;‘for many an offerer of the sea-wolf; ’
= SEAFARER
the sea-wolf; → SHIP
for many an offerer of the SHIP → SEAFARER
vargs ‘wolf’
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vargr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): wolf < sundvargr (noun m.): [sea-wolf]
kennings
mǫrgum boða sundvargs;‘for many an offerer of the sea-wolf; ’
= SEAFARER
the sea-wolf; → SHIP
for many an offerer of the SHIP → SEAFARER
vargs ‘wolf’
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vargr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): wolf < sundvargr (noun m.): [sea-wolf]
kennings
mǫrgum boða sundvargs;‘for many an offerer of the sea-wolf; ’
= SEAFARER
the sea-wolf; → SHIP
for many an offerer of the SHIP → SEAFARER
boða ‘an offerer’
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boði (noun m.; °-a; -ar): messenger, breaker
kennings
mǫrgum boða sundvargs;‘for many an offerer of the sea-wolf; ’
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the sea-wolf; → SHIP
for many an offerer of the SHIP → SEAFARER
mǫrgum ‘for many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
kennings
mǫrgum boða sundvargs;‘for many an offerer of the sea-wolf; ’
= SEAFARER
the sea-wolf; → SHIP
for many an offerer of the SHIP → SEAFARER
hæstr ‘greatest’
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hœgri (adj. comp.): higher, highest
varð ‘became’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
geirs ‘of the spear’
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geirr (noun m.): spear
kennings
gusti geirs.‘the gust of the spear.’
= BATTLE
the gust of the spear. → BATTLE
at ‘in’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
gusti ‘the gust’
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gustr (noun m.): gust
kennings
gusti geirs.‘the gust of the spear.’
= BATTLE
the gust of the spear. → BATTLE
grams ‘the ruler’s’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
tírr ‘glory’
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tírr (noun m.; °-s): glory, honour
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
bol ‘trunk’
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bolr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; dat. -um): trunk, torso
svíri ‘neck’
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svíri (noun m.; °-a; -ar): neck
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The extant poem resumes with commemoration of the sea-battle at Svǫlðr c. 1000, for which see also Hfr ErfÓl 1-24, Skúli SvǫlðrIII, Stefnir Lv 1 (cf. OSnorr Lv), Eþsk Couplet, Hókr Eirfl, ÞKolb Eirdr 8, and the non-contemporary HSt Rst 15-23; see further the entry on Óláfr Tryggvason in ‘Ruler biographies’ in Introduction to this volume. — [4]: The entire first helmingr, except for its final word tafni (n. dat. sg.) ‘carrion, prey’ or ‘offering, sacrifice’, is lacking in Bb. Apparently the scribe’s exemplar had a lacuna here; a much later hand notes vantar í ‘some missing’ at the bottom of fol. 112v, after st. 16. It is likely that a significant number of stanzas are missing (see Introduction).
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