Anon Brúðv 17VII
Valgerður Erna Þorvaldsdóttir (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Brúðkaupsvísur 17’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 540-1.
Renna ‘to dissolve’
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2. renna (verb): run (strong)
tekr ‘begins’
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2. taka (verb): take
rækt ‘affection’
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rœkð (noun f.; °-ar): affection
þín ‘Your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
rauð ‘of the red’
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rauðr (adj.; °compar. -ari): red < rauðblik (noun n.)
kennings
hlynr rauðbliks hranna,‘maple of the red gleam of the waves, ’
= MAN
the red gleam of the waves, → GOLD
maple of the GOLD → MAN
rauð ‘of the red’
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rauðr (adj.; °compar. -ari): red < rauðblik (noun n.)
kennings
hlynr rauðbliks hranna,‘maple of the red gleam of the waves, ’
= MAN
the red gleam of the waves, → GOLD
maple of the GOLD → MAN
bliks ‘gleam’
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blik (noun n.): gleam < rauðblik (noun n.)
kennings
hlynr rauðbliks hranna,‘maple of the red gleam of the waves, ’
= MAN
the red gleam of the waves, → GOLD
maple of the GOLD → MAN
bliks ‘gleam’
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blik (noun n.): gleam < rauðblik (noun n.)
kennings
hlynr rauðbliks hranna,‘maple of the red gleam of the waves, ’
= MAN
the red gleam of the waves, → GOLD
maple of the GOLD → MAN
við ‘for’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
mig ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hví ‘what’
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hví (adv.): why
sætir ‘is the reason’
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2. sæta (verb): mean, signify
hlynr ‘maple’
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hlynr (noun m.; °-s): maple
kennings
hlynr rauðbliks hranna,‘maple of the red gleam of the waves, ’
= MAN
the red gleam of the waves, → GOLD
maple of the GOLD → MAN
hranna ‘of the waves’
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hrǫnn (noun f.; °; dat. -um): wave
kennings
hlynr rauðbliks hranna,‘maple of the red gleam of the waves, ’
= MAN
the red gleam of the waves, → GOLD
maple of the GOLD → MAN
hranna ‘of the waves’
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hrǫnn (noun f.; °; dat. -um): wave
kennings
hlynr rauðbliks hranna,‘maple of the red gleam of the waves, ’
= MAN
the red gleam of the waves, → GOLD
maple of the GOLD → MAN
en ‘but’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þier ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
ann ‘love’
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1. unna (verb): love
Hefjaz ‘to begin’
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hefja (verb): lift, start
liet ‘caused’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þín ‘your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
þrif ‘prosperity’
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þrif (noun n.; °; -): prosperity
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
hafnar ‘reject’
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1. hafna (verb): abandon, reject
mier ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
ástum ‘love’
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ást (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): love
notes
[7] ástum leiðir ‘[you] love’: Here construed as 2nd pers. sg. pres. indic., but leiðir could also be 3rd pers. sg. ‘he, wealth-skilful, loves’. Line 8 suggests the direct address is the more likely.
leiðir ‘’
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leið (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir/-ar): path, way
notes
[7] ástum leiðir ‘[you] love’: Here construed as 2nd pers. sg. pres. indic., but leiðir could also be 3rd pers. sg. ‘he, wealth-skilful, loves’. Line 8 suggests the direct address is the more likely.
auð ‘wealth’
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1. auðr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-): wealth < (unknown) (unclassified)1. auðr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-): wealth < auðlystr (adj.)
[7] auðlistr: auðlystr 2166ˣ
notes
[7] auðlistr ‘wealth-skilful’: Jón Sigurðsson suggested the reading auðlystr ‘wealth-desiring’ in the margin of 399a-bˣ. The scribe of 2166ˣ later adopted that reading in his main text, but gives the original reading in the margin. Jón’s suggestion offers an interesting interpretation. The term auðlystr ‘desiring wealth’ implies greed or avarice, one of the seven deadly sins. Mary could be accusing the young man of forsaking her for worldly goods, because the young woman he got engaged to was quite wealthy according to st. 10.
lystr ‘’
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lystr (adj.): eager < auðlystr (adj.)
notes
[7] auðlistr ‘wealth-skilful’: Jón Sigurðsson suggested the reading auðlystr ‘wealth-desiring’ in the margin of 399a-bˣ. The scribe of 2166ˣ later adopted that reading in his main text, but gives the original reading in the margin. Jón’s suggestion offers an interesting interpretation. The term auðlystr ‘desiring wealth’ implies greed or avarice, one of the seven deadly sins. Mary could be accusing the young man of forsaking her for worldly goods, because the young woman he got engaged to was quite wealthy according to st. 10.
aðra ‘another’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
ertu ‘you are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
að ‘of’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
saðr ‘convicted’
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2. sannr (adj.; °-an; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): true
notes
[8] saðr (adj.) ‘convicted, guilty’: Older form of the adj. sannr. Vera sannr at e-u is ‘to be guilty of something’.
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There are several rhymes in this st. that may point to a C13th date for Brúðv: blik : mig (l. 2), sæt- : það (l. 3), aðr- : saðr (l. 8). See Introduction.
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