Anon (FoGT) 6^III

Sjálfráði dó síðan
sólar fróns að nóni,
sá er hiekk, en dag dökkti,
döglingr, á jarnnöglum.

{Döglingr {fróns sólar}}, sá er hiekk á jarnnöglum, dó síðan sjálfráði að nóni, en dag dökkti.

{The king {of the land of the sun}} [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)], who hung on iron nails, then died of his own volition at nones, and the day grew dark.

Mss: W(112) (FoGT)

Editions: Skj AII, 163, Skj BII, 180, Skald II, 94; SnE 1848-87, II, 196-7, III, 154, FoGT 1884, 123, 245, FoGT 2004, 33, 61, 93, FoGT 2014, 6-7, 61.

Context: This helmingr is cited as the first of two examples of the figure of chronographia, which FoGT defines thus: Cronographía er þat ef sagt er, ꜳ hverivm tíma tiðindin gerðvz, þav er hann vill fra segía ‘Chronographia is if it is specified as to what time events occurred that he wants to describe’.

Notes: [All]: As with st. 4, this stanza appears among citations illustrating terms for Christ in the Y version of LaufE (LaufE 1979, 364) and in a similar environment in RE 1665(Hh). — [All]: The citation is appropriate to the figure of chronographia, as it specifies the exact time of Christ’s death on the Cross, as mentioned in three of the four gospel accounts (Matt. XXVII.45-6; Mark XV.33-4; Luke XXIII.44-5). There it is stated that darkness fell upon the earth at the sixth hour and lasted until the ninth hour, at which time Christ died. The same idea appears in Anon (FoGT) 46/5. — [2] að nóni ‘at nones’: The office of the ninth hour, about 3 p. m. — [3] dökkti ‘grew dark’: The verb is used impersonally with dag ‘day’ as acc. object.

References

1. Bibliography
2. SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. LaufE 1979 = Faulkes, Anthony, ed. 1979. Edda Magnúsar Ólafssonar (Laufás Edda). RSÁM 13. Vol. I of Two Versions of Snorra Edda from the 17th Century. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, 1977-9.
5. FoGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
6. FoGT 2004 = Longo, Michele, ed. [2004]. ‘Il Quarto Trattato Grammaticale Islandese: Testo, Traduzione e Commento’. Dottorato di Ricerca in ‘Linguistica Sincronica e Diacronica’ (XV Ciclo). Palermo: Università degli Studi di Palermo, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia.
7. FoGT 2014 = Clunies Ross, Margaret and Jonas Wellendorf, eds. 2014. The Fourth Grammatical Treatise. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
8. Internal references
9. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, The Fourth Grammatical Treatise’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=34> (accessed 2 May 2024)
10. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 46’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 624.
11. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 2 May 2024)