Anon Mey 9VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra meyja drápa 9’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 897-8.
Máría ‘Mary’
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María (noun f.): Mary
hlaut ‘gained’
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hljóta (verb): alot, gain
hin ‘The’
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2. inn (art.): the
yngsta ‘youngest’
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ungr (adj.): young
æru ‘honour’
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1. æra (noun f.; °-u): honour
angri ‘sorrow’
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2. angr (noun n.): grief, sin
svift ‘deprived of’
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svífa (verb): sweep
er ‘when’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
tók ‘she got’
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2. taka (verb): take
að ‘’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
giftaz ‘married’
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2. gifta (verb): marry
Zébédéus ‘Zebedee’
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Zebedeus (noun m.): [Zebedee]
mildrar ‘gentle’
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mildr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -astr): mild, gentle, gracious, generous
meyjar ‘maiden’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
móður ‘of her mother’
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móðir (noun f.): mother
fekk ‘received in marriage’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
að ‘with’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
vilja ‘will’
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vili (noun m.; °-ja): will, wish
góðum ‘good’
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góðr (adj.): good
Þeira ‘Their’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
sonr ‘son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
má ‘can’
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mega (verb): may, might
heita ‘be called’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
herra ‘lord’
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1. herra (noun m.; °herra; herrar): lord
harðla ‘very’
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harðla (adv.): very, highly, greatly
kunnr ‘famous’
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kunnr (adj.): known (?)
er ‘whom’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
guðs ‘God’s’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
son ‘son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
unni ‘loved’
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1. unna (verb): love
postuli ‘Apostle’
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postuli (noun m.; °-a; -ar): apostle
Jón ‘John’
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Jón (noun m.): John, Jón
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
mildleik ‘mercifulness’
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mildleikr (noun m.): [mercifulness]
mestan ‘greatest’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
mektar ‘might’
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mekt (noun f.; °-ar): might, power < mektarsannr (adj.)
notes
[8] mektarsannr ‘in possession of true might’: In LP it is suggested that the adj. may mean ‘capable of performing miracles’.
sannr ‘true’
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2. sannr (adj.; °-an; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): true < mektarsannr (adj.)
notes
[8] mektarsannr ‘in possession of true might’: In LP it is suggested that the adj. may mean ‘capable of performing miracles’.
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
notes
[8] og Jacóbus annarr ‘and the second James’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) interprets this phrase to mean ‘and James [was] the other [son]’, but, in view of the poet’s mention of the Apostle James the Less in st. 8/5, it seems more plausible here that he intends to differentiate James the Great, brother of John and son of Zebedee, from James the Less, son of Alpheus.
Jacóbus ‘James’
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Jacobus (noun m.): [James]
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[8] og Jacóbus annarr ‘and the second James’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) interprets this phrase to mean ‘and James [was] the other [son]’, but, in view of the poet’s mention of the Apostle James the Less in st. 8/5, it seems more plausible here that he intends to differentiate James the Great, brother of John and son of Zebedee, from James the Less, son of Alpheus.
annarr ‘second’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
notes
[8] og Jacóbus annarr ‘and the second James’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) interprets this phrase to mean ‘and James [was] the other [son]’, but, in view of the poet’s mention of the Apostle James the Less in st. 8/5, it seems more plausible here that he intends to differentiate James the Great, brother of John and son of Zebedee, from James the Less, son of Alpheus.
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The youngest Mary, deprived of sorrow, gained honour when she got married; Zebedee received in marriage the gentle maiden with the good will of her mother. Their son can be called a very famous lord, whom God’s son loved, the Apostle John with the greatest mercifulness, in possession of true might and the second James.
The Apostles James the Great and John are said to be the sons of Zebedee in gospel accounts (Matt. IV.21 and Mark I.19). The notion that John (and therefore James) was the son of the Virgin Mary’s sister is found in many medieval sources and was well known in Iceland; cf. this poem, st. 10/1 and Gamlkan Jóndr 3/1, where John is also called Christ’s systrungr ‘sister’s son, cousin whose mothers are sisters’; see also Jón4 1874, 466 and AÍ I, 56.
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