Anon Sól 28VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 28’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 314-15.
Æsta ‘to ask’
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æsta (verb): ask, request
[1] Æsta: ‘æsca’ papp15ˣ, ‘æskia’ 10575ˣ, æstandi 2797ˣ
þarftu ‘’
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2. þurfa (verb): need, be necessary
notes
[1, 3] þykkir ‘it seems’: The repetition of þykkir has tempted eds, following Bugge, to emend the first þykkir to dugir ‘it helps, is of advantage’ (so Falk, Björn M. Ólsen, Skj B, Skald, Fidjestøl) but þykkir is found in 166bˣ and 58 other mss; þarftu ‘you need’ in 1441ˣ looks like an intelligent scribal emendation.
einkum ‘especially’
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einkum (adv.): [especially]
var ‘’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
vand ‘careful’
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vandr (adj.): difficult < vandliga (adv.): carefully
[2] vand‑: var‑ papp15ˣ
liga ‘ly’
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-liga (adv.): -ly < vandliga (adv.): carefully
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
notes
[1, 3] þykkir ‘it seems’: The repetition of þykkir has tempted eds, following Bugge, to emend the first þykkir to dugir ‘it helps, is of advantage’ (so Falk, Björn M. Ólsen, Skj B, Skald, Fidjestøl) but þykkir is found in 166bˣ and 58 other mss; þarftu ‘you need’ in 1441ˣ looks like an intelligent scribal emendation.
alls ‘in everything’
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allr (adj.): all
á ‘’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
[4] á mis: ‘a væl’ 166bˣ, 214ˣ, ‘ami’ papp15ˣ, á vil 738ˣ, ‘a ne’ 1441ˣ, ‘a nei’ 10575ˣ, ‘ani’ 2797ˣ
notes
[4] a mis: The mss have a variety of readings, providing variants on ‘væl’, ‘mi’ and ‘ne’. Skj B’s conjecture mis (followed by Björn M. Ólsen and Njörður Njarðvík) is supported by papp15ˣ and possibly by the various ‘ne’ readings. Verða á mis(s) + gen. means ‘to go wrong, go amiss’ and suits the context well. Á víl (which is suggested by the readings of 738ˣ and 166bˣ) does not take the gen. of what goes astray or amiss, as is required here. Kock (NN §2149 and Skald) conjectures áveill ‘wretched, miserable’. Bugge emended to án æ ‘always without’; some support for this may be offered by 7 mss reading ‘an’, ‘ani’ or ‘a nei’, as 10575ˣ does. Falk, followed by Fidjestøl, emended to án ‘alone’, als án verðr ‘he will get nothing’. This emendation provides an effective contrast with asking for nothing (l. 5); cf. Matt. VII.7-8: petite et dabitur vobis quaerite et invenietis pulsate et aperietur vobis / omnis enim qui petit accipit et qui quaerit invenit et pulsanti aperietur ‘ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened’ (cf. Luke XI.9-10).
vil ‘’
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1. vil (noun n.): desire, wilfulness
mis ‘amiss’
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mis (noun ?): mis-
[4] á mis: ‘a væl’ 166bˣ, 214ˣ, ‘ami’ papp15ˣ, á vil 738ˣ, ‘a ne’ 1441ˣ, ‘a nei’ 10575ˣ, ‘ani’ 2797ˣ
notes
[4] a mis: The mss have a variety of readings, providing variants on ‘væl’, ‘mi’ and ‘ne’. Skj B’s conjecture mis (followed by Björn M. Ólsen and Njörður Njarðvík) is supported by papp15ˣ and possibly by the various ‘ne’ readings. Verða á mis(s) + gen. means ‘to go wrong, go amiss’ and suits the context well. Á víl (which is suggested by the readings of 738ˣ and 166bˣ) does not take the gen. of what goes astray or amiss, as is required here. Kock (NN §2149 and Skald) conjectures áveill ‘wretched, miserable’. Bugge emended to án æ ‘always without’; some support for this may be offered by 7 mss reading ‘an’, ‘ani’ or ‘a nei’, as 10575ˣ does. Falk, followed by Fidjestøl, emended to án ‘alone’, als án verðr ‘he will get nothing’. This emendation provides an effective contrast with asking for nothing (l. 5); cf. Matt. VII.7-8: petite et dabitur vobis quaerite et invenietis pulsate et aperietur vobis / omnis enim qui petit accipit et qui quaerit invenit et pulsanti aperietur ‘ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened’ (cf. Luke XI.9-10).
verðr ‘will go’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
sá ‘he’
[5] sá er: þeir 214ˣ
einskis ‘for nothing’
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2. engi (pron.): no, none
fár ‘few’
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3. fár (adj.; °compar. fǽrri/fárri(Mág² 11), superl. fǽstr): few
hyggr ‘consider’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
þegjanda ‘of the one who is silent’
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þegja (verb): be silent
[6] þegjanda: so 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, þegjandi 166bˣ, papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 214ˣ
notes
[6] þegjanda ‘of the one who is silent’: 166bˣ has þegjandi, but a nom. case can scarcely be correct. About 10 mss have þegjanda however, probably by independent emendation; no doubt nom. fár ‘few’ has encouraged the use of þegjandi in agreement. Cf. Hávm 104: fátt gat ek þegjandi þar ‘little did I get there by being silent’, and Hsv 46 for a similar sentiment.
þörf ‘the need’
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þǫrf (noun f.; °þarfar; þarfar/þarfir): need
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