Gestumbl Heiðr 10VIII (Heiðr 57)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 57 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 10)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 420.
Hvat ‘What’
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hvat (pron.): what
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
undra ‘wonder’
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2. undr (noun n.; °-s; -): wonder, marvel
[1] undra: undra inserted in the margin in another hand 597bˣ
er ‘that’
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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
[2] ek: inserted in the margin in another hand 597bˣ
úti ‘outside’
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úti (adv.): out, outdoors, out at sea, abroad
sá ‘saw’
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2. sjá (verb): see
notes
[3] Dellings ‘Dellingr’s’: Emended in keeping with the occurrence of this recurring formula in other riddles; other eds do the same. See Note to Heiðr 55/3.
durum ‘doors’
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1. dyrr (noun f.; °gen. dura/dyra, dat. durum/dyrum): door
[3] durum: ‘d:’ 597bˣ
Hvítir ‘White’
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hvítr (adj.; °-an; -ari, -astr): white
fljúgendr ‘flying’
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fljúgandi: °person som kan flyve
notes
[4] fljúgendr ‘flying ones’: The participial adj. is a hap. leg. in poetry.
hellu ‘the rock-slab’
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1. hella (noun f.; °-u; -ur): cave, slab
ljósta ‘strike’
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2. ljósta (verb): strike
en ‘but’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
svartir ‘black’
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svartr (adj.): black
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
sand ‘sand’
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sandr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sand, beach
grafaz ‘bury themselves’
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grafa (verb): to dig, earth, bury
Heiðrekr ‘Heiðrekr’
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Heiðrekr (noun m.): Heiðrekr
[7-8] abbrev. as ‘h: k· hig̈ ad.’ 281ˣ, abbrev. as ‘h. K h: ad þu’ corrected from ‘h. K h: þu’ in the margin in another hand 597bˣ
konungr ‘King’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
[7-8] abbrev. as ‘h: k· hig̈ ad.’ 281ˣ, abbrev. as ‘h. K h: ad þu’ corrected from ‘h. K h: þu’ in the margin in another hand 597bˣ
hyggðu ‘think’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
[7-8] abbrev. as ‘h: k· hig̈ ad.’ 281ˣ, abbrev. as ‘h. K h: ad þu’ corrected from ‘h. K h: þu’ in the margin in another hand 597bˣ
at ‘about’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
[7-8] abbrev. as ‘h: k· hig̈ ad.’ 281ˣ, abbrev. as ‘h. K h: ad þu’ corrected from ‘h. K h: þu’ in the margin in another hand 597bˣ
gátu ‘the riddle’
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gáta (noun f.)
[7-8] abbrev. as ‘h: k· hig̈ ad.’ 281ˣ, abbrev. as ‘h. K h: ad þu’ corrected from ‘h. K h: þu’ in the margin in another hand 597bˣ
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King Heiðrekr’s response reads (Heiðr 1960, 80): smækkask nú gáturnar, en þat er hagl ok regn, því at hagli lýstr á stræti, en regnsdropar søkkva í sand ok sœkja í jǫrð ‘the riddles now grow trivial, but that is hail and rain, because hail strikes upon the road, but raindrops sink into the sand and push on into the earth’. — [1]: See Note to Heiðr 55/1.
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