Anon Sól 46VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 46’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 327-8.
Vánar ‘of hope’
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ván (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): hope, expectation < vánarstjarna (noun f.)
notes
[1] vánarstjarna ‘a star of hope’: Falk (1914a, 27-8) compares Mar 1871, 936: dagstjarna sannrar vánar ‘the day-star of true hope’. For Paasche (1914a, 146) and Björn M. Ólsen 1915, the star represents the soul leaving the body.
stjarna ‘A star’
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stjarna (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): star < vánarstjarna (noun f.)
notes
[1] vánarstjarna ‘a star of hope’: Falk (1914a, 27-8) compares Mar 1871, 936: dagstjarna sannrar vánar ‘the day-star of true hope’. For Paasche (1914a, 146) and Björn M. Ólsen 1915, the star represents the soul leaving the body.
fló ‘flew’
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fljúga (verb): fly
notes
[2] þá var ek fæddr ‘then I was born’: The sense seems to be that the narrator is now being born in spirit into the next life; he hopes, but cannot yet be certain, that he will find rest among the blessed. Skj B normalises to þás fœddr of vask to regularise the metre, while Skald emends fæddr to hræddr ‘afraid’.
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[2] þá var ek fæddr ‘then I was born’: The sense seems to be that the narrator is now being born in spirit into the next life; he hopes, but cannot yet be certain, that he will find rest among the blessed. Skj B normalises to þás fœddr of vask to regularise the metre, while Skald emends fæddr to hræddr ‘afraid’.
notes
[2] þá var ek fæddr ‘then I was born’: The sense seems to be that the narrator is now being born in spirit into the next life; he hopes, but cannot yet be certain, that he will find rest among the blessed. Skj B normalises to þás fœddr of vask to regularise the metre, while Skald emends fæddr to hræddr ‘afraid’.
fæddr ‘born’
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2. fœða (verb): to feed, give food to, bring up, bear, give birth to
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[2] þá var ek fæddr ‘then I was born’: The sense seems to be that the narrator is now being born in spirit into the next life; he hopes, but cannot yet be certain, that he will find rest among the blessed. Skj B normalises to þás fœddr of vask to regularise the metre, while Skald emends fæddr to hræddr ‘afraid’.
burt ‘away’
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2. burt (adv.): away
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
mér ‘my’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hátt ‘high’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
at ‘on’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
fló ‘flew’
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fljúga (verb): fly
hvergi ‘nowhere’
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2. hvergi (pron.): not, nowhere, neither
hon ‘it’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[5] hon: om. papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 214ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ
notes
[5] hon ‘it’: That is, the star-soul. The pron. is f.
settiz ‘come down’
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setja (verb): place, set, establish
svát ‘so that’
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svát (conj.): so that, so as
at ‘’
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4. at (conj.): that
hon ‘it’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[6] hon: at hon 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ
mætti ‘might’
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mega (verb): may, might
hvílð ‘rest’
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2. hvíla (verb): rest
hafa ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
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[4] at: Present in all mss, but its significance is uncertain. Some eds (e.g. Skj B, Falk) delete, but, if retained (so Bugge, Björn M. Ólsen, Skald, Fidjestøl and Njörður Njarðvík), it must be part of a verb-adv. collocation, hon fló hátt at ‘it flew on high’.
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