Ormr Frag 2III
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Ormr Steinþórsson, Fragments 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 333.
Ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hef ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
orðgnótt ‘word-abundance’
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orðgnótt (noun f.): wealth of words
notes
[1] orðgnótt ‘word-abundance’: Attestations of this cpd, as also of orðagnótt, are primarily from C12th and later.
opt ‘often’
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opt (adv.): often
notes
[2] opt ‘often’: The statement in Skj A that this ms. reading is no longer visible is incorrect.
finnum ‘find’
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2. finna (verb): find, meet
minni ‘less’
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3. minni (adj. comp.; °superl. minnstr): less, least
framm ‘’
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fram (adv.): out, forth, forwards, away
telk ‘I deliver’
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telja (verb): tell, count
leyfð ‘[poem of] praise’
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leyfð (noun f.): praise
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
notes
[3] fyr lofða ‘before men’: The acc. after fyr (for more prevalent dat. in this sub-sense) arises because the adv. framm implies ‘motion towards’ (cf. CVC: fyrir).
lofða ‘men’
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lofði (noun m.; °; -ar): man
notes
[3] fyr lofða ‘before men’: The acc. after fyr (for more prevalent dat. in this sub-sense) arises because the adv. framm implies ‘motion towards’ (cf. CVC: fyrir).
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[4] ljósa (f. acc. sg.) ‘clear’: Skj A reads ms. ljós, f. nom. sg. or n. nom./acc. pl. (cf. SnE 1848-87, II, 340) and emends to ljósa, followed by all subsequent eds. Considerations of sense and word order speak for construing the adj. with leyfð ‘[poem of] praise’ (f. acc. sg.; l. 3), as advocated by Kock (NN §900; cf. SnE 1998), rather than with orðgnótt ‘word-abundance’ (l. 1), as supposed in Skj B; Kock cites parallel uses of ljóss. In an earlier interpretation, explicitly rejected by Kock (NN §900), Rask (SnE 1818, 176), followed by SnE 1848-87, I, 468-9 n. 10, reads ms. ljós as ljósir (m. nom. pl.) and emends to ljósri (f. dat. sg.) putatively a substantivised adj. referring to a woman who is the subject of men’s praise. But this depends, as Kock notes, upon the separation of the prep. fyr from ljósri, as apparent in the translation in SnE 1848-87, I, 469, laudem virorum coram candida (muliere) recito ‘I recite the praise of men in the presence of the bright (woman)’. What Rask takes as the abbreviation for -ir is merely the final curve of letter <s>, with an interruption in the pen-stroke or loss of ink between it and the ascender.
an ‘than’
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2. an (conj.): than
myndak ‘I would’
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munu (verb): will, must
kjósa ‘choose’
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kjósa (verb): choose
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In ms. U, the helmingr is added to the selection of stanzas in Skm (SnE) to exemplify heiti for ‘poetry’ further, in the immediate context of nouns that primarily denote ‘praise’ or ‘renown’.
It has been suggested that this helmingr comes from the final stanza of a poem (SnE 1998), but in view of the pres. tense of telk ‘I deliver’ a position in the upphaf ‘proemium’ or the main body of the poem seems more likely.
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