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Anon Hsv 70VII

Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 70’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 403.

Anonymous PoemsHugsvinnsmál
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Liðnar ‘past’

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1. líða (verb): move, glide

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heiptir ‘wrath’

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heift (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): hatred, enmity

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skaltu ‘You must’

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skulu (verb): shall, should, must

[2] skaltu: skulu 1199ˣ

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[2] skaltu ‘must’: 1199ˣ’s skulu might be the result of confusing liðnar heiptir as the subj. of the cl.

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eigi ‘not’

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3. eigi (adv.): not

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lengi ‘for long’

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lengi (adv.): for a long time

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muna ‘remember’

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munu (verb): will, must

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í ‘to’

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í (prep.): in, into

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trygðum ‘plighted oath’

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tryggð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-ar): security, oath

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at ‘to’

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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)

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sækja ‘pursue’

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sœkja (verb): seek, attack

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er ‘which’

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2. er (conj.): who, which, when

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sættar ‘settled’

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sætta (verb): reconcile, settle

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eru ‘have been’

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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am

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manns ‘man’

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maðr (noun m.): man, person

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eðli ‘the nature’

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eðli (noun n.; °-s; dat. -um): nature

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Lat. parallel: (Dist. II, 15) Litis praeteritae noli maledicta referre: / post inimicitias iram meminisse malorum est ‘Do not allude to the curses of a past quarrel; it is bad to remember anger after hostilities’.

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