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Note to stanza7. Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I, 9 [Vol. 7, 685] [5-6] græðis glóð-Nanna fekk grát ‘the Nanna <goddess> of the glow of the sea [(lit. ‘the glow-Nanna of the sea’) GOLD > WOMAN] got grief [lit. weeping]’: This emendation is conjectural. The ms. reading can be construed as follows: græðir fekk grát glóðanna ‘the Saviour [or sea] got weeping of the embers’ or græðir glóðanna fekk grát ‘the Saviour [or sea] of the embers got weeping’. Neither of these readings makes any sense. It is easy to see how glóð-Nanna ‘glow-Nanna’ (lectio difficilior) could be confused with glóðanna ‘of the embers’ (lectio facilior) and the poetic word græðis ‘of the sea’ with the more familiar græðir ‘Saviour’. The goddess-name Nanna is also used as a base-word in kennings for ‘woman’ in Anon Mey 30/6 and Kálf Kátr 10/2 and 13/7. Most earlier eds emend to glóða Ná fekk græðis, in which Ná glóða græðis ‘the Ná of the embers of the sea’ must be a kenning for ‘woman’ (so Sperber; Skj B; Skald; Wrightson). That l. is syntactically and metrically impossible: in the corpus of dróttkvætt poetry there is no other sentence-introductory Type-A l. in which a trisyllabic cpd in position 1-3 is followed by the finite verb. Furthermore, it is not clear who Ná is supposed to be. There is no entry in LP, but presumably it is a late, otherwise unattested form of the name of the goddess Gn (with loss of initial g-). referencesSkj B = Finnur Jónsson ed.… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mv I 9, n. 5-6 (SkP 7) Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin ed. 194… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mv I 9, n. 5-6 (SkP 7) LP = Finnur Jónsson ed. 1931. Lex… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mv I 9, n. 5-6 (SkP 7) Kálf Kátr 10 ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mv I 9, n. 5-6 (SkP 7) Anon Mey 30 ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon Mv I 9, n. 5-6 (SkP 7) |
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