Anon (TGT) 9III
Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 543.
text and translation
Rann hræddari hranna
hyrbrjótr frá styr ljótum.
{Hræddari {hranna hyr}brjótr} rann frá ljótum styr.
‘The more fearful breaker of the fire of the waves [(lit. ‘fire-breaker of the waves’) GOLD > GENEROUS MAN] ran from the grim battle.’
notes and context
Cited as an example of soloecismus involving comparison; the comparative form (samjafnanligt nafn) hræddari ‘more fearful’ is used instead of the positive form (settligu nafni) hræddr ‘fearful’.
This fragment expresses an idea opposite to that of Anon (TGT) 8 and the two are probably in deliberate contrast; cf. Anon (TGT) 8/1 hraustan ‘bravely’ and hræddari ‘more fearful’ (l. 1).
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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AM 748 I b 4° (A) — 4v/16 - 4v/17
imagesRann hræddari hran | na hyrbriotr fra styr liotvm .
(VEÞ)
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AM 242 fol (W) — 103/12 - 103/12
imagesʀann hræddari hranna hyrbríotr fra styr ljotum.
(TW)
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AM 761 a 4°x (761ax) — 91r/13 - 91r/14
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