Alls engi sá ek yðvarn,
þar er upp lokinn fundum
Heilavá*g fyrir hvítum
hesti máva rastar.
Ok við lási lúðra
fyrir landi vér undum
hallar ríkri möllu
hrafns fyrir rauðum stafni.
Ek sá alls engi yðvarn, þar er fundum Heilavá*g upp lokinn fyrir hvítum hesti rastar máva. Ok við lási lúðra undum vér fyrir landi ríkri möllu hallar hrafns fyrir rauðum stafni.
I saw none of you at all where we found Heilavágr opened up before the white horse of the path of seagulls [SEA > SHIP]. And with our ships at anchor we took pleasure, offshore, in the mighty enclosure of the hall of the raven [CRAG > SEA] before the red prow.
[1] engi: ‘einghi’ or ‘eingin’ 1824b
[1] engi yðvarn ‘none of you’: Here the 2nd pers. pl. poss. adj. yð(v)arr ‘your’ (pl.), in the m. acc. sg., agreeing with and qualifying the negative pron. engi, ‘no(o)ne’, the object of sá ‘saw’, is used in a partitive sense.
Pronouns and determiners: engi (none, no)
masc. | fem. | neut. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
sing. | N A G D | engi engan, engi engis, enskis engum | engi enga engrar engri | ekki ekki engis, enskis engu |
pl. | N A G D | engir enga engra engum | engar engar engra engum | engi engi engra engum |