Anon Sól 44VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 44’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 326.
Sól ‘the sun’
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sól (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): sun
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
sá ‘saw’
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2. sjá (verb): see
sjaldan ‘seldom’
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sjaldan (adv.): seldom
hryggvari ‘more grief-stricken’
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2. hryggr (adj.; °-van/-jan; compar. -vari/-ari/-ri; superl. -astr): sorrowful, sad
ok ‘’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þá ‘then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
heimi ‘of this world’
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heimr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): home, abode; world
hallr ‘tilting’
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3. hallr (adj.): tilting, awry
tunga ‘tongue’
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tunga (noun f.; °-u; -ur): tongue, language
notes
[4-5] tunga mín var metin til trés ‘my tongue was as if turned to wood’: Metin from meta ‘to estimate, value, assess as, regard, perceive as’.
mín ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
notes
[4-5] tunga mín var metin til trés ‘my tongue was as if turned to wood’: Metin from meta ‘to estimate, value, assess as, regard, perceive as’.
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
notes
[4-5] tunga mín var metin til trés ‘my tongue was as if turned to wood’: Metin from meta ‘to estimate, value, assess as, regard, perceive as’.
notes
[4-5] tunga mín var metin til trés ‘my tongue was as if turned to wood’: Metin from meta ‘to estimate, value, assess as, regard, perceive as’.
trés ‘wood’
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tré (noun n.; °-s; tré/trjó, gen. trjá, dat. trjóm/trjám): tree
notes
[4-5] tunga mín var metin til trés ‘my tongue was as if turned to wood’: Metin from meta ‘to estimate, value, assess as, regard, perceive as’.
metin ‘as if’
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2. meta (verb): measure, value, assess
notes
[4-5] tunga mín var metin til trés ‘my tongue was as if turned to wood’: Metin from meta ‘to estimate, value, assess as, regard, perceive as’.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
klofnat ‘’
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kljúfa (verb): cleave
kólnat ‘it was chilled’
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kólna (verb): [it was chilled]
[6] kólnat: so 738ˣ, ‘kolnud’ 166bˣ, klofnat papp15ˣ
fyrir ‘’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
utan ‘the outside’
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útan (prep.): outside, without
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[3]: The same l. occurs at 40/3.
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