From: akoddsson
Message: 4381
Date: 2004-07-05
>difficult but what I have been able to read is quite lovely. The
> I am trying to read Ragnarsdrápa. I have found it to be rather
> RagnarsdrápaIt could just be *hrafnkell, later corrected to the full edition of
>
> 1.
> Vilið Hrafnketill heyra,
> hvé hreingróit steini
> Þrúðar skalk auk þengil
> þjófs ilja blað leyfa!
> 2.Bragi would have said *SigvarðaR in the genitive, not *Sigurðar. A
> Nema svát góð ens gjalla
> gjöld baugnafaðs vildi
> meyjar hjóls enn mæri
> mögr Sigurðar Högna.
> 3.Short on time, so a few quotes more only:
> Knátti eðr við illan - Bragi would have had *viðr
> Jörmunrekr at vakna - '-rekr' probably not e yet (from *rîkaz)
> með dreyrfáar dróttir - fáðar
> draum í sverða flaumi. -
> Rósta varð í ranni
> Randvés haufuðniðja, - masc. names in -vér? Examine -vir and viðr.
> þás er hrafnbláir hefndu - just 'þás, no 'er'; hefnðu
> harma Erps of barmar.
>
> 4.
> Flaut of set við sveita - again, viðr
> sóknar álfs, í golfi, - alfs
> hræva dögg, þars höggnar
> hendr sem ftr of kendu. +sk, or where is the subject?
> Fell í blóði blandinn
> brunn ölskákki runna - no comment
> - þat 's á Leifa landa
> laufi fátt - at haufði.
> 7.This section thus beginning was in all likelihood the first section
> Þat segik fall á fögrum - sék
> flotna randar botni.
> Ræs göfumk reiðar mána - no comment
> Ragnarr auk fjölð sagna.
> bti-Þrúðr at móti - examine *bóti at this stage
> hringa þeir of fingi. - notice fingi, see below
>
> 11.
> fordæða nam ráða. - examine *fordáðja at thi stage
> raðalfs af mari bróðum. - ráð?; bráðum by retained u at this stage.
> 13.
> glöð djúpröðuls, auðla, - djúpröðul accus.
> ennitungl, þars gingu - see fingi above
> fyr vinjeyjar viðri - vineyjar
> vallrauf, fjögur haufuð. - valrauf
> 14.
> Þat erum sýnt, at snimma - es + (u)mk (from *original dat. mez)
> sonr Aldaföðrs vildi - Bragi would have had sunr, not sonr
> afls við úri þfðan - viðr
> jarðar reist of freista.
> 17.Although the runic spelling could not show it (fik = fink or fekk),
> brautar þvengr enn ljóti - examine the braut-from-brjóta issue.
> 18.
> hekk Völsunga drekku. - Bragi would have said 'hink' and 'drinku'.
> 19.forms like the *faikian on the Rök stone, etc.. Bragi would be even
> mrar skar fyr Þóri. - examine gen. mórjar. About + j, compare
> Thank you,Interesting topic, William. Unfortunately, I am short on time and
> William Calhoun
>in
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