Anon Óldr 19I
Kate Heslop (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Óláfs drápa Tryggvasonar 19’ 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. 1050.
Frægs ‘of the famous’
frægr (adj.; °-jan/-an; compar. -ri, superl. -jastr/-astr/-str): famous, renowned
stillis ‘ruler’
varð ‘had’
falla ‘to fall’
ferð ‘The troop’
en ‘but’
beitt ‘wielded’
sverðum ‘swords’
endr ‘again’
brúnt ‘brown’
á ‘onto’
branda ‘blades’
blóð ‘blood’
varð ‘it became’
notes
[4] varð autt ‘it became empty’: I.e. a space was cleared as Óláfr’s warriors fell.
autt ‘empty’
notes
[4] varð autt ‘it became empty’: I.e. a space was cleared as Óláfr’s warriors fell.
um ‘around’
góðan ‘the good man’
Auk ‘also’
und ‘under’
jǫfri ‘prince’
frœknum ‘the bold’
Ormr ‘Ormr (‘Serpent’)’
hrauzk ‘cleared’
notes
[6] hrauzk ‘was ... cleared’: On the placing of the verb, see Introduction.
en ‘but’
felt ‘were hooded’
notes
[6] felt rauðu ‘were hooded with red’: Or ‘put on red headgear’ (verb falda ‘to clothe the head’), a conventional circumlocution meaning ‘died in battle’ (LP: 2. falda). The image is one of blood streaming down from a head-wound.
rauðu ‘with red’
notes
[6] felt rauðu ‘were hooded with red’: Or ‘put on red headgear’ (verb falda ‘to clothe the head’), a conventional circumlocution meaning ‘died in battle’ (LP: 2. falda). The image is one of blood streaming down from a head-wound.
Eireks ‘Eiríkr’s’
hirð ‘retinue’
áðr ‘before’
yrði ‘extended’
jarls ‘the jarl’s’
fyrir ‘over’
hjarli ‘the land’
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Frægs stillis varð falla |
The troop of the famous ruler [Óláfr] had to fall, but swords were wielded; brown blood again came onto blades; it became empty around the good man [Óláfr]. Ormr (‘Serpent’) was also cleared under the bold prince, but Eiríkr’s retinue were hooded with red, before the jarl’s rule extended over the land.
[6] Ormr ‘(“Serpent”)’: Óláfr’s famous warship Ormr inn langi ‘the Long Serpent’, frequently named in contemporary poetry, as well as being the subject of word-play in st. 21/4 below, for example; see also Notes to Hfr ErfÓl 10/1, Hókr Eirfl 3/4.
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