Anon Sól 81VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 81’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 356.
Kvæði ‘poem’
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kvæði (noun n.; °-s; -): poem
ek ‘’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
kent ‘taught’
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kenna (verb): know, teach
hefi ‘I have’
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hafa (verb): have
skaltu ‘you must’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
kveða ‘recite’
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kveða (verb; kveð, kvað, kveðinn): (str.) say, recite, sing
Sólarljóð ‘‘Sólarljóð’’
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sólarljóð (noun n.): Sólarljóð
notes
[4] Sólarljóð ‘Songs of the Sun’: The n. ljóð is indicated as pl. here by the verb munu (l. 5), though st. 83 understands it as sg. Naming the poem in the closing or penultimate st., and the injunction to take its lessons to heart are paralleled in Hsv 148 and 149 and Hávm 164. Has 64 and Leið 44, as Paasche (1914a, 162) points out, also name the poem in the second to last st., as does Lil, leaving the final st. for a valedictory prayer.
er ‘which’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
[5] er: om. papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ
sýnaz ‘appear’
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sýna (verb): show, seem
manu ‘’
minst ‘least’
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3. minni (adj. comp.; °superl. minnstr): less, least
at ‘in’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
login ‘untruthful [lit. lying]’
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ljúga (verb): lie
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