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Anon Mv III 29^VII l. 6

oss — us

lemma:

vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our

readings:

notes:

[6] oss ... kveðr ‘us ... will call’: Skj B and Skald insert the conj. er ‘when’ before oss ‘us’, which gives the following translation of the second helmingr: ‘because I believe, highest blossom, that, when the true God, your son, calls us away from this world, your words will save the souls’. Wrightson makes no emendations and gives the following translation: ‘because I believe that true God, your son, will call us hence out of the world; may your speech save souls’. The problem with both readings is that they presuppose a suppressed conj. að ‘that’ (eg trúi, að ‘I believe that’), and that conj. cannot be omitted.

kennings:

grammar:

Pronouns and determiners: First person

	sing.	dual	pl.
N A G D	ek mik mín mér	vit okkr okkar okkr	vér oss vár oss