Anon (FoGT) 22III
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 22’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 598.
Sveit ‘detachment’
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sveit (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): host, company
fylla ‘fills’
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fylla (verb): fill
ein ‘One’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
alla ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
kennings
alla jóa Glamma‘all the steeds of Glammi ’
= SHIPS
all the steeds of Glammi → SHIPS
alls ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
notes
[2] alls framm ‘all [the way] forwards’: With Björn Magnússon Ólsen (FoGT 1884, 271-2) this adverbial phrase is understood to mean that a single detachment of men filled the ships ‘all the way forwards to the prow’.
framm ‘forwards’
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fram (adv.): out, forth, forwards, away
notes
[2] alls framm ‘all [the way] forwards’: With Björn Magnússon Ólsen (FoGT 1884, 271-2) this adverbial phrase is understood to mean that a single detachment of men filled the ships ‘all the way forwards to the prow’.
jóa ‘the steeds’
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jór (noun m.): stallion, steed
kennings
alla jóa Glamma‘all the steeds of Glammi ’
= SHIPS
all the steeds of Glammi → SHIPS
Glamma ‘of Glammi’
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2. Glammi (noun m.): Glammi
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alla jóa Glamma‘all the steeds of Glammi ’
= SHIPS
all the steeds of Glammi → SHIPS
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This couplet exemplifies another type of antiptosis, in which there is a difference in number between the noun subject and its verb. After the citation, the prose text explains: her stendr þetta nafn sveít sem margfallt nafn, styrt af margfǫlldv orði fylla ‘here this noun sveit is used as a plural noun, governed by the plural verb fylla’.
This couplet is very likely an invention of whoever composed FoGT (or of someone composing to his order) rather than a fragment of a complete stanza or helmingr. It bears considerable similarities to the figure Évrard of Béthune called exallage, and exemplified by the clause naues armato milite complent ‘the ships fill up with armed soldiery’ (Wrobel 1887, 5 ll. 41-2). In the Graecismus this example follows immediately upon that used as the basis of st. 21. Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848-87, II, 221, III, 159) understood the couplet as a dependent clause, whose main clause was missing, and took alls (l. 2) as an adv. to give alls ein sveit … ‘since/when a detachment …’.
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