Anon Sól 34VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 34’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 318-19.
Vil ‘Desire’
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1. vil (noun n.): desire, wilfulness
notes
[1] vil ok dul ‘desire and delusion’: Cf. Hfr ErfÓl 25/8I and dularheim ‘world of delusion’ in st. 35/4.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
notes
[1] vil ok dul ‘desire and delusion’: Cf. Hfr ErfÓl 25/8I and dularheim ‘world of delusion’ in st. 35/4.
dul ‘delusion’
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1. dul (noun f.; °-ar; -ar): delusion
notes
[1] vil ok dul ‘desire and delusion’: Cf. Hfr ErfÓl 25/8I and dularheim ‘world of delusion’ in st. 35/4.
tælir ‘trap’
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tæla (verb): entice
notes
[2] tælir ‘entrap’: 3rd pers. sg. verb for pl. subject comprising two distinct entities. For warnings against trusting in riches, cf. Hsv 34/6: ilt er auði at trúa ‘it is bad to trust in wealth’, and more distantly Hsv 22, 66, 80; Hávm 75, and Matt. VI.19-21; against trusting in worldly things in general, cf. Hsv 106.
virða ‘of men’
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virðr (noun m.): man
sonu ‘the sons’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
þá ‘those’
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
á ‘for’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
fé ‘wealth’
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fé (noun n.; °fjár/féar; -): cattle, money
ljósir ‘shining’
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ljóss (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): bright
aurar ‘pieces of silver’
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eyrir (noun m.; °eyris, dat. eyri; aurar): ounce, money, property
at ‘in’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
löngum ‘the long run’
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langr (adj.; °compar. lengri, superl. lengstr): long
trega ‘to grief’
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tregi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): sorrow
margan ‘many a man’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
hefr ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
auðr ‘riches’
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1. auðr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-): wealth
apat ‘made a monkey of’
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2. apa (verb): make a monkey of
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