Leiðólfr Frag 1III
Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Leiðólfr skáld, Fragment 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 289.
Mǫrðr ‘Mǫrðr’
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mǫrðr (noun m.): mǫrðr
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[1] Njǫrðr ‘the Njǫrðr <god>’: Probably used as the base-word for a man-kenning, the remainder of which belonged to now-lost lines. Ms. W’s reading Mǫrðr (a pers. n.) is also plausible, the variation no doubt arising from a confusion of <ni>/<m>. Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884, 225) suggests that this stanza (taking W’s reading) deals with persons also mentioned in Njáls saga, in which a Mǫrðr Valgarðsson plays a prominent role. The subject-matter implied by the fragment is more suggestive of a royal encomium than Icelandic feud, however.
bar ‘carried’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
gull ‘gold’
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gull (noun n.): gold
ór ‘out of’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
garði ‘the courtyard’
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garðr (noun m.): enclosure, yard
grams ‘ruler’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
s ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
verðung ‘the troop’
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verðung (noun f.): troop, retinue
framði ‘honoured’
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fremja (verb): advance, perform
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Cited as an example of synecdoche, that is, when a part is substituted for the whole or vice-versa, as shown in the use of gull ‘gold’ to refer to a (gold) ring.
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