Heiðr Lv 2VIII (Ǫrv 2)/7 — skaltu ‘you will’
Ferr þú eigi svá fjörðu breiða
né líðr yfir langa vága,
þótt sær um þik sægjum gangi;
þó skaltu brenna á Berurjóðri.
Þú ferr eigi svá breiða fjörðu né líðr yfir langa vága, þótt sær gangi sægjum um þik; þó skaltu brenna á Berurjóðri.
You will never travel thus over broad firths nor sail across long bays, though the sea may surge in billows around you; yet you will burn at Berurjóðr.
notes
[7-8] þó skaltu brenna á Berurjóðri ‘yet you will burn at Berurjóðr’: Berurjóðr is the name of Oddr’s foster-father Ingjaldr’s farm in Jæren, south-west Norway, where the action of this episode takes place. In the prose text following sts 1-3 the prophetess tells Oddr that he will die at Berurjóðr and that the skull of the horse Faxi will cause his death. The reference to burning looks forward to the end of the saga when the dying Oddr orders his men to prepare a stone coffin for him and to burn him and all his belongings on a funeral pyre.
grammar
Verbs: Preterite-present verbs
The present tense of these verbs is like the past tense of strong verbs, and their past tense is weak.
| eiga | mega | kunna | skulu | munu | muna | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indic. pres. | sing. pl. | 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd | á átt á eigum eiguð eigu | má mátt má megum meguð megu | kann kannt kann kunnum kunnuð kunnu | skal skalt skal skulum skuluð skulu | mun munt mun munum munuð munu | man mant man munum munið muna |
| indic. past stem subj. pres. stem subj. past stem | átt- eig- ætt- | mátt- meg- mætt- | kunn- kunn- kynn- | skyld- skyl- skyld- | mund- myn- mynd- | mund- mun- mynd- | ||