Þul Sáðs 2III
Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sáðs heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 986.
Grjón ‘Groats’
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grjón (noun n.; °-s; -): dough, groats
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
valbygg ‘Welsh barley’
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valbygg (noun n.): [Welsh barley]
gróska ‘vegetation’
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gróska (noun f.): [vegetation]
dumba ‘bran’
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1. dumba (noun f.): [bran]
hveiti ‘wheat’
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hveiti (noun n.; °-s): [wheat]
hirsi ‘millet’
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hirsi (noun n.): [millet]
hjalmr ‘rick’
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2. hjalmr (noun m.): [rick]
skrúf ‘haystack’
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skrúf (noun n.): [haystack]
notes
[4] skrúf (n.) ‘haystack’: For this word, see AEW: skrúf.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
mjǫl ‘meal’
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mjǫl (noun n.; °-s, dat. -vi/-i; -): flour, meal
bendill ‘sheaf-band’
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bendill (noun m.): [sheaf-band]
heslar ‘hazels’
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hesli (noun n.): hazel-tree
notes
[5] heslar ‘hazels’: From hesli n. ‘hazel’, but here the form is either m. or f. pl., which is unusual. It is difficult to explain why ‘hazel’ is mentioned in the þula of Sáðs heiti, unless it implies that the nuts could be ground and used as flour (cf. mjǫl ‘meal’ l. 4 and flúr ‘flour’ l. 7).
bundin ‘bunch’
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bundin (noun n.; °; -): [bunch]
sáðkorn ‘seed-corn’
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sáðkorn (noun n.): [seed-corn]
flúr ‘flour’
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2. flúr (noun n.): [flour]
ǫmstr ‘stack’
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ǫmstr (noun m.): [stack]
þrefi ‘thrave’
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þrefi (noun m.): [strife, thrave]
notes
[7] þrefi (m.) ‘thrave’: A measure of straw or fodder, i.e. two stocks of corn containing twelve sheaves each; cf. ModNorw. treve ‘twenty-four sheaves’.
frækorn ‘grain of seed’
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frækorn (noun n.): [grain of seed]
gnjóði ‘chaff’
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gnjóði (noun m.): [chaff]
notes
[8] gnjóði (m.) ‘chaff’: A hap. leg. Cf. New Norw. njode, njoe ‘chaff’. According to ÍO: gnjóði, the word is related to gnauð f. ‘rustling noise’ and the weak verb gnyðja ‘mutter, grumble’, from Gmc *gneu-þ- ‘rub’; hence the original meaning may have been ‘ground, something smashed, crumb’.
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Aside from grjón n. pl. ‘groats’, valbygg n. ‘Welsh barley’ (l. 1), hveiti m. ‘wheat’ (l. 3), mjǫl n. ‘meal’ (l. 4) and flúr n. ‘flour’ (l. 7), none of the heiti for ‘grain’ listed in this stanza is otherwise attested in Old Norse poetry, although bundin ‘bunch’ (l. 6) appears in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: bundin). Some of the latter (gróska f. ‘vegetation’, dumba f. ‘bran’ l. 2; hirsi m. ‘millet’ l. 3; bendill m. ‘sheaf-band’ l. 5; ǫmstr m. ‘stack’, þrefi m. ‘thrave’ l. 7) do not occur in other Old Norse sources although they are preserved in Modern Icelandic or in other Modern Scandinavian languages.
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