Völuspá 24

24.

Fleygði Óðinn / ok í fólk um skaut,

Spear throws Odinn / and shoots in the flock,

  • fleygði verb 3rd sg perf ind act fleygja to make fly / fleygja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fleygði, supine fleygt) to fling, throw, to throw away (trash, etc.)
  • Óðinn nom.
  • í prep í into
  • fólk sg. acc. collective fólk folk, people;/ fólk, n. (1) folk, people; (2) the people of a household; (3) kinsfolk; (4) host; (5) bat- tle (poet.).
  • skaut verb 3rd sg perf ind act skjóta (singular past indicative skaut, plural past indicative skutu, past participle skotinn) to shoot

þat var enn fólkvíg / fyrst í heimi;

then there was conflict, / the first in the home;

  • þat var it was
  • enn adv enn (not comparable) yet, still
  • fólkvíg fólk n people / víg, n. (1) fight, battle;  (2) homicide, man-slaughter
  • fyrst adv fyrst first; gekk Hrútr fyrst (foremost) ok kvaddi konunginn; sem f, as soon as possible; f í stað, directly, at once;
  • í prep í +dat.
  • heimi noun sg dat heimr a place of abode, a region or world

brotinn var borðveggr / borgar ása,

broken was board-wall / in Aesir-fortress,

  • brotinn verb perf act brjóta to break ; b fót sinn, to break one’s leg; b tennr ór höfði manns, to break the teelh out of the head; b mann um stein, to break a man on a stone; b en í hjóli, to break on the wheel;
  • borðveggr borð n (genitive singular borðs, nominative plural borð) a plank, board (long flat piece of wood) / veggr (gen. -jar and -s, pl. -ir), m. wall (hlaða vegg);
  • borgar get. sg. borg f (genitive borgar, plural borgir) A city, town (often fortified), A castle, Any fortified place
  • ása gen. pl áss m (genitive ásar, plural æsir) (Norse mythology) one of the gods, Æsir

knáttu vanir vígspá / völlu sporna.

war proclaims Vanir, / on plains running.

  • knáttu past 3pl. kná (pl. knegum; knátta), a defective verb, I can (could); knákat ek segja, I cannot say (poet.).
  • vanir pl masc nom vanr
  • vígspá sg. acc. víg f war / spá (pl. spár), f. prophecy (sjaldan hafa
    spár mínar átt langan aldr)
  • völlu noun pl acc völlr vǫllr field, (level) ground (par vöru viða vellir sléttir) ; kasta sér niðr við vellinum, to cast oneself down flat on the ground; leggja e-n við (or at) velli, to lay one level with the ground, kill one; hús mín liggja við velli, my house lies an the ground, i
  • sporna inf sporna to spurn, tread on

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