Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 540.
Þorði Iðja orða.
{Orða Iðja} … þorði.
‘Of the words of Iði <giant> [GOLD] … dared.’
Cited as an example of barbarismus where vowels of equal length are juxtaposed in adjoining syllables (TGT 1927, 48): Enn telr Dónátús þann lǫst með barbarismo, ef ii. raddarstafir jafnlangir standaz hit næsta í tveim samstǫfum ‘Donatus also ascribes to barbarism the fault where two vowels of equal length stand next to each other in two syllables’.
The figure illustrated here can be seen in the fragment as -i i- in þorði Iðja and/or -a o- in Iðja orða. It corresponds to the figure of hiatus which Donatus lists but does not explain. Hiatus is elaborated further in Hiberno-Latin commentaries, e.g. by Sedulius Scottus (CCCM 40B, 334): Hiatus sunt, sicuti diximus, cum similes uocales ac similiter longae collisam hiantemque structuram ‘Hiatus is, as we have said, when similar vowels of similar length make a clashed and gaping structure’. — The one-line fragment has aðalhending, but the double alliteration indicates that it must be an odd line.
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þorði iðia orða
(VEÞ)
Þorði iðía orða.
(VEÞ)
þorði | iðia orða.
(TW)
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