Anon Mv I 18VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 18’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 691-2.
Fel ‘commend’
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4. fela (verb): commend?
notes
[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’.
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’.
nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
frú ‘lady’
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frú (noun f.): lady
notes
[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’.
mín ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
notes
[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’.
sælust ‘most blessed’
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sæll (adj.): happy, blessed
notes
[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’.
fljóð ‘woman’
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fljóð (noun n.): woman
mælir ‘speaks’
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1. mæla (verb): speak, say
svá ‘thus’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
rjóðast ‘the most blushing’
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3. rjóðr (adj.): red
notes
[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’. — [3] lífs (n. gen. sg.) ‘of my life’s’: Líf (n. nom. or acc.) ‘life’ (so 721) is ungrammatical because the syntax requires the gen. case.
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[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’. — [3] lífs (n. gen. sg.) ‘of my life’s’: Líf (n. nom. or acc.) ‘life’ (so 721) is ungrammatical because the syntax requires the gen. case.
orðinnar ‘spent’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
notes
[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’.
æfi ‘days’
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ævi (noun f.; °-/-ar): life
notes
[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’.
enda ‘the end’
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endi (noun m.): end
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[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’.
þier ‘your’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
notes
[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’.
á ‘into’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
notes
[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’.
hendi ‘hands’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
notes
[1, 3-4] fel eg, sælust frú mín, ... enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier ‘I commend, my most blessed lady, ... the end of my life’s spent days into your hands’: This recalls the last words of Christ according to Luke (Luke XXIII.46): Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’.
Gangi ‘proceed’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
öll ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
þó ‘even’
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þó (adv.): though
notes
[5-6] þó að eg hafi gjört illa að segja ‘even though I have told a terrible tale [lit. spoken ill]’: The sense of this cl. is not immediately transparent, but it must refer to the fact that she confessed to Mary about her wicked crime, i.e. she told a terrible tale. For the construction gera + inf., see Fritzner: gera 15. Skj B translates the cl. as uagtet jeg har ille gjort i mine ord (el. været uheldig i min fortælling derom?) ‘regardless of the fact that I have done ill in my words (or been unfortunate in my telling about it ?)’, which makes little sense. Wrightson translates it loosely as ‘although I have poorly represented myself’. Kock (NN §1687) believes that the cl. means that the woman has acted (hafi gjört) such that it was terrible to tell about it (illa að segja). This is more in keeping with the present translation, but fails to account for the gera + inf. construction. The corresponding places in Mar (1871, 278, 1203) read as follows: alla vega sic røgiandi ‘incriminating herself in all possible ways’; [j]atar hun þar sina sekt opinberliga fyrir ollum monnum ‘there she admits her guilt publicly before all people’.
að ‘though’
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4. at (conj.): that
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[5-6] þó að eg hafi gjört illa að segja ‘even though I have told a terrible tale [lit. spoken ill]’: The sense of this cl. is not immediately transparent, but it must refer to the fact that she confessed to Mary about her wicked crime, i.e. she told a terrible tale. For the construction gera + inf., see Fritzner: gera 15. Skj B translates the cl. as uagtet jeg har ille gjort i mine ord (el. været uheldig i min fortælling derom?) ‘regardless of the fact that I have done ill in my words (or been unfortunate in my telling about it ?)’, which makes little sense. Wrightson translates it loosely as ‘although I have poorly represented myself’. Kock (NN §1687) believes that the cl. means that the woman has acted (hafi gjört) such that it was terrible to tell about it (illa að segja). This is more in keeping with the present translation, but fails to account for the gera + inf. construction. The corresponding places in Mar (1871, 278, 1203) read as follows: alla vega sic røgiandi ‘incriminating herself in all possible ways’; [j]atar hun þar sina sekt opinberliga fyrir ollum monnum ‘there she admits her guilt publicly before all people’.
illa ‘terrible’
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illr (adj.): bad, evil, unwell
notes
[5-6] þó að eg hafi gjört illa að segja ‘even though I have told a terrible tale [lit. spoken ill]’: The sense of this cl. is not immediately transparent, but it must refer to the fact that she confessed to Mary about her wicked crime, i.e. she told a terrible tale. For the construction gera + inf., see Fritzner: gera 15. Skj B translates the cl. as uagtet jeg har ille gjort i mine ord (el. været uheldig i min fortælling derom?) ‘regardless of the fact that I have done ill in my words (or been unfortunate in my telling about it ?)’, which makes little sense. Wrightson translates it loosely as ‘although I have poorly represented myself’. Kock (NN §1687) believes that the cl. means that the woman has acted (hafi gjört) such that it was terrible to tell about it (illa að segja). This is more in keeping with the present translation, but fails to account for the gera + inf. construction. The corresponding places in Mar (1871, 278, 1203) read as follows: alla vega sic røgiandi ‘incriminating herself in all possible ways’; [j]atar hun þar sina sekt opinberliga fyrir ollum monnum ‘there she admits her guilt publicly before all people’.
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[5-6] þó að eg hafi gjört illa að segja ‘even though I have told a terrible tale [lit. spoken ill]’: The sense of this cl. is not immediately transparent, but it must refer to the fact that she confessed to Mary about her wicked crime, i.e. she told a terrible tale. For the construction gera + inf., see Fritzner: gera 15. Skj B translates the cl. as uagtet jeg har ille gjort i mine ord (el. været uheldig i min fortælling derom?) ‘regardless of the fact that I have done ill in my words (or been unfortunate in my telling about it ?)’, which makes little sense. Wrightson translates it loosely as ‘although I have poorly represented myself’. Kock (NN §1687) believes that the cl. means that the woman has acted (hafi gjört) such that it was terrible to tell about it (illa að segja). This is more in keeping with the present translation, but fails to account for the gera + inf. construction. The corresponding places in Mar (1871, 278, 1203) read as follows: alla vega sic røgiandi ‘incriminating herself in all possible ways’; [j]atar hun þar sina sekt opinberliga fyrir ollum monnum ‘there she admits her guilt publicly before all people’.
hafi ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
notes
[5-6] þó að eg hafi gjört illa að segja ‘even though I have told a terrible tale [lit. spoken ill]’: The sense of this cl. is not immediately transparent, but it must refer to the fact that she confessed to Mary about her wicked crime, i.e. she told a terrible tale. For the construction gera + inf., see Fritzner: gera 15. Skj B translates the cl. as uagtet jeg har ille gjort i mine ord (el. været uheldig i min fortælling derom?) ‘regardless of the fact that I have done ill in my words (or been unfortunate in my telling about it ?)’, which makes little sense. Wrightson translates it loosely as ‘although I have poorly represented myself’. Kock (NN §1687) believes that the cl. means that the woman has acted (hafi gjört) such that it was terrible to tell about it (illa að segja). This is more in keeping with the present translation, but fails to account for the gera + inf. construction. The corresponding places in Mar (1871, 278, 1203) read as follows: alla vega sic røgiandi ‘incriminating herself in all possible ways’; [j]atar hun þar sina sekt opinberliga fyrir ollum monnum ‘there she admits her guilt publicly before all people’.
gjört ‘told’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
notes
[5-6] þó að eg hafi gjört illa að segja ‘even though I have told a terrible tale [lit. spoken ill]’: The sense of this cl. is not immediately transparent, but it must refer to the fact that she confessed to Mary about her wicked crime, i.e. she told a terrible tale. For the construction gera + inf., see Fritzner: gera 15. Skj B translates the cl. as uagtet jeg har ille gjort i mine ord (el. været uheldig i min fortælling derom?) ‘regardless of the fact that I have done ill in my words (or been unfortunate in my telling about it ?)’, which makes little sense. Wrightson translates it loosely as ‘although I have poorly represented myself’. Kock (NN §1687) believes that the cl. means that the woman has acted (hafi gjört) such that it was terrible to tell about it (illa að segja). This is more in keeping with the present translation, but fails to account for the gera + inf. construction. The corresponding places in Mar (1871, 278, 1203) read as follows: alla vega sic røgiandi ‘incriminating herself in all possible ways’; [j]atar hun þar sina sekt opinberliga fyrir ollum monnum ‘there she admits her guilt publicly before all people’.
að ‘’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
notes
[5-6] þó að eg hafi gjört illa að segja ‘even though I have told a terrible tale [lit. spoken ill]’: The sense of this cl. is not immediately transparent, but it must refer to the fact that she confessed to Mary about her wicked crime, i.e. she told a terrible tale. For the construction gera + inf., see Fritzner: gera 15. Skj B translates the cl. as uagtet jeg har ille gjort i mine ord (el. været uheldig i min fortælling derom?) ‘regardless of the fact that I have done ill in my words (or been unfortunate in my telling about it ?)’, which makes little sense. Wrightson translates it loosely as ‘although I have poorly represented myself’. Kock (NN §1687) believes that the cl. means that the woman has acted (hafi gjört) such that it was terrible to tell about it (illa að segja). This is more in keeping with the present translation, but fails to account for the gera + inf. construction. The corresponding places in Mar (1871, 278, 1203) read as follows: alla vega sic røgiandi ‘incriminating herself in all possible ways’; [j]atar hun þar sina sekt opinberliga fyrir ollum monnum ‘there she admits her guilt publicly before all people’.
segja ‘tale [lit. spoken ill]’
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segja (verb): say, tell
notes
[5-6] þó að eg hafi gjört illa að segja ‘even though I have told a terrible tale [lit. spoken ill]’: The sense of this cl. is not immediately transparent, but it must refer to the fact that she confessed to Mary about her wicked crime, i.e. she told a terrible tale. For the construction gera + inf., see Fritzner: gera 15. Skj B translates the cl. as uagtet jeg har ille gjort i mine ord (el. været uheldig i min fortælling derom?) ‘regardless of the fact that I have done ill in my words (or been unfortunate in my telling about it ?)’, which makes little sense. Wrightson translates it loosely as ‘although I have poorly represented myself’. Kock (NN §1687) believes that the cl. means that the woman has acted (hafi gjört) such that it was terrible to tell about it (illa að segja). This is more in keeping with the present translation, but fails to account for the gera + inf. construction. The corresponding places in Mar (1871, 278, 1203) read as follows: alla vega sic røgiandi ‘incriminating herself in all possible ways’; [j]atar hun þar sina sekt opinberliga fyrir ollum monnum ‘there she admits her guilt publicly before all people’.
málin ‘matters’
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1. mál (noun n.; °-s; -): speech, matter
meyja ‘Virgin’
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meyja (noun f.; °-u): maiden, virgin
heilög ‘holy’
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heilagr (adj.; °helgan; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): holy, sacred
mín ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
að ‘according to’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
vilja ‘will’
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vili (noun m.; °-ja): will, wish
þínum ‘your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
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