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Gestumbl Heiðr 11^VIII (Heiðr 58)

Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 58 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 11)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 421.

Gestumblindi Heiðreks gátur

Hvat ‘What’

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hvat (pron.): what

[1-3] om. 597bˣ, 281ˣ

er ‘is’

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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am

[1-3] om. 597bˣ, 281ˣ

þat ‘the’

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1. sá (pron.; °gen. þess, dat. þeim, acc. þann; f. sú, gen. þeirrar, acc. þá; n. þat, dat. því; pl. m. þeir, f. þǽ---): that (one), those

[1-3] om. 597bˣ, 281ˣ

undra ‘wonder’

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2. undr (noun n.; °-s; -): wonder, marvel

[1-3] om. 597bˣ, 281ˣ

er ‘that’

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2. er (conj.): who, which, when

[1-3] om. 597bˣ, 281ˣ

ek ‘I’

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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me

[1-3] om. 597bˣ, 281ˣ

úti ‘outside’

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úti (adv.): out, outdoors, out at sea, abroad

[1-3] om. 597bˣ, 281ˣ

sá ‘saw’

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2. sjá (verb): see

[1-3] om. 597bˣ, 281ˣ

fyrir ‘before’

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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of

[1-3] om. 597bˣ, 281ˣ

Dellings ‘Dellingr’s’

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Dellingr (noun m.)

[1-3] om. 597bˣ, 281ˣ

durum ‘doors’

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1. dyrr (noun f.; °gen. dura/dyra, dat. durum/dyrum): door

[1-3] om. 597bˣ, 281ˣ

Svartan ‘a black’

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svartr (adj.): black

gölt ‘boar’

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gǫltr (noun m.): boar, hog

ek ‘I’

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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me

sá ‘saw’

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2. sjá (verb): see

í ‘in’

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í (prep.): in, into

sauri ‘muck’

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saur (noun n.; °; -): mud, filth, impure

notes

[5] sauri ‘muck’: Puns on the two (related) meanings of saurr (Fritzner: saurr 1, 2): ‘mud’, fitting the boar context, and ‘excrement’, fitting the dung-beetle context.

vaða ‘wade’

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vaða (verb): advance, wade

ok ‘but’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

reis ‘rise’

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rísa (verb): rise, raise

honum ‘his’

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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...

eigi ‘did not’

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3. eigi (adv.): not

burst ‘bristles’

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burst (noun f.; °; -ar/ir): °stiff hair, (hog’s) bristle, (I) bristles on a hog’s back; (paint)brush; ridge of a roof

notes

[6] burst ‘bristles’: A hap. leg. in poetry. In the sense ‘the bristles on a boar’s back’, as here, the f. sg. noun is used collectively (ONP: burst 1).

á ‘on’

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3. á (prep.): on, at

baki ‘back’

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bak (noun n.; °-s; *-): back

Heiðrekr ‘Heiðrekr’

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Heiðrekr (noun m.): Heiðrekr

[7-8] abbrev. as ‘h^c: K: h:’ 597bˣ, abbrev. as ‘heidr: k^r’ 281ˣ

konungr ‘King’

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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king

[7-8] abbrev. as ‘h^c: K: h:’ 597bˣ, abbrev. as ‘heidr: k^r’ 281ˣ

hyggðu ‘think’

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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider

[7-8] abbrev. as ‘h^c: K: h:’ 597bˣ, abbrev. as ‘heidr: k^r’ 281ˣ

at ‘about’

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3. at (prep.): at, to

[7-8] abbrev. as ‘h^c: K: h:’ 597bˣ, abbrev. as ‘heidr: k^r’ 281ˣ

gátu ‘the riddle’

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gáta (noun f.)

[7-8] abbrev. as ‘h^c: K: h:’ 597bˣ, abbrev. as ‘heidr: k^r’ 281ˣ

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Heiðrekr’s response is (Heiðr 1960, 81): þat er tordýfill, ok er nú mart til tínt, er tordýflar eru ríkra manna spurningar ‘that is the dung-beetle, and much has been recounted now, when dung-beetles are [the subject of] the questions of powerful men’. — [1]: See Note to Heiðr 55/1. — [1-3]: Omitted in the mss, but the organising principle of the H redaction is to group riddles with a similar beginning together, and this comes in the midst of eight other riddles with this opening. See also Note to Heiðr 55/1-3. Other eds also insert this opening formula.

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