Anon Nkt 1II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 762-3.
verðr ‘is’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
skylt ‘the obligation’
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2. skyldr (adj.): obliged
ef ‘if’
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3. ef (conj.): if
at ‘’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
skilum ‘correctly’
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skil (noun n.; °; -): knowledge
yrkja ‘they compose’
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yrkja (verb): compose
greppum ‘ poets’
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greppr (noun m.; °; -ar): poet, man
notes
[4] at gleði ‘that they gladden’: The pronoun þeir ‘they’ (so Flat) is extrametrical and has been deleted in accordance with most earlier eds.
notes
[4] at gleði ‘that they gladden’: The pronoun þeir ‘they’ (so Flat) is extrametrical and has been deleted in accordance with most earlier eds.
fyrða ‘people’
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2. fyrðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -): man
allra ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
helzt ‘above’
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heldr (adv.): rather
ef ‘if’
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3. ef (conj.): if
eru ‘are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
færi ‘fewer’
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3. fár (adj.; °compar. fǽrri/fárri(Mág² 11), superl. fǽstr): few
virðar ‘men’
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virðr (noun m.): man
þeir ‘those’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
an ‘than’
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2. an (conj.): than
verit ‘they have been’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
hǫfðu ‘’
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hafa (verb): have
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[6-8] ef þeir virðar eru færi, an verit hǫfðu ‘if those men are fewer than they have been’: The sense must be that the poet’s current audience is smaller than it was before. It is tempting to connect this rather obscure reference with the manndauðr mikill ‘great dying of people’, which, according to the Icel. annals, took place in 1192 (Storm 1888, s. a. 1192, p. 61). Between mid-October 1192 and the end of May 1193, more than 2000 people died of illness and hunger in the Northern Quarter of Iceland. Jón’s daughter, Solveig, also died in 1193. Alternatively, þeir virðar ‘those men’ could refer to the poets (þeim greppum, l. 3), and taken to mean that there were fewer poets who, at this time, were able to compose encomia. Hence it was the obligation of those poets who still possessed that skill, to entertain people.
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