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Note to Anon (LaufE) 3III

[4] samland ‘the fellow-land’: (a) Taken here as a cpd formed in analogy with samlandi ‘compatriot, fellow countryman’. Samland serkjar ‘the fellow-land of the shirt [WOMAN]’ is then parallel to serkland ‘shirt-land [WOMAN]’ (l. 1). (b) Skj B interprets this as another geographical name, Samland (translated as ‘Samland’; LP: Samland). As a p. n., this must be ON Sámland, Semgallen, a historical district in Latvia (see ÍF 35, 244-5). (c) Kock (Skald; NN §1235) construes samland serkjar ‘fellow-land of the shirt’ as another kenning for ‘body’, and he takes sólmarkar (l. 3) as a kenning for ‘heaven’ (see Note to l. 3 above). According to Kock, samland serkjar sólmarkar drepr gamni við mér translates as Härligt särkland, egt jemensamt, jör hos mig på fröjden slut ‘The glorious shirt-land, owned in common, causes the end of my joy’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  5. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  6. ÍF 35 = Danakonunga sǫgur. Ed. Bjarni Guðnason. 1982.

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