Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 20’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 551.
Konungr kappgjarn
kostum betri
allri þjóð
alframr konungr.
Kappgjarn konungr, betri kostum allri þjóð, alframr konungr.
‘The energetic king, better in [good] qualities for the whole people, the excellent king.’
Cited as an example of epanalepsis (‘eparalemsis’; TGT 1927, 68): Eparalemsis gerir alt eitt upphaf ok niðrlag vers eða vísu ‘Epanalepsis is where there is the same beginning and end to a line or stanza’. Donatus only applies this figure to single lines of poetry, however.
The figure of epanalepsis is exemplified here by the use of konungr ‘king’ at the beginning and end of the stanza. — The fragment lacks a verb, and the nominal phrases kappgjarn konungr ‘energetic king’ and alframr konungr ‘excellent king’ could also be taken as forms of address. — Another kviðuháttr fragment of a praise poem. See Note to st. 13 [All].
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konungr kapp | giarn kostvm bætri allri þioð all framr konungr .
(VEÞ)
Konungr kappgjarn
kostum betri
allri þjóð
alframr .
konungr kappgiarn kostvm betri allri þioð alframr.
(TW)
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