Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 16’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 589.
Þýddiz karl inn klædda
kona mín og þörf sína;
eg sá karl og klæði
koma inn í því sinni.
Kona mín þýddiz inn klædda karl og þörf sína; eg sá karl og klæði koma inn í því sinni.
‘My wife gave in to the clothed man and his desire; I saw man and clothes come in at the [same] time.’
As for st. 15. After st. 16 the prose text offers the following gloss: her er klæddr maðr settr fyrer sialfvm ser ok þeim klæðum er hann gaf konvnni at fꜳ̋ sinn vilia, ok iannat sinn er sagt at sier huart kom inn karl ok klæði, þar sem klæddr maðr kom inn ‘here a clothed man is mentioned instead of himself and the clothes which he gave to the woman in order to obtain his desire, and the second time it is said that each of the two, man and clothes, came in, when [in fact] a clothed man came in’.
Both this dróttkvætt stanza and st. 15 read like examples specially invented to illustrate a textbook. As Longo (FoGT 2004, 184) has pointed out, FoGT’s example is likely to have been influenced by the example of hendiadys given in Alexander of Villa Dei’s Doctrinale (Reichling 1893, 174, ll. 2586-8), where armatum virum ‘armed man’ is split into two nouns arma virumque ‘arms and the man’ (the first two words of Virgil’s Aeneid), and conversely arma virumque is transformed into armatoque viro ‘by the armed man’.
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