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Anon Sól 35VII

Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 35’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 319.

Anonymous PoemsSólarljóð
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at ‘at’

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3. at (prep.): at, to

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mörgu ‘many a thing’

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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many

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þótta ‘seemed’

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þótta (verb): [seemed]

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gumnum ‘to men’

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gumi (noun m.; °-a; gumar/gumnar): man

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þvít ‘because’

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þvít (conj.): because, since

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vissa ‘knew’

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1. vita (verb): know

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fyrir ‘of what lay ahead’

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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of

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dular ‘of delusion’

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dulr (noun m.; °dat. -): [delusion] < dularheimr (noun m.)

[4] dular‑: dvalar‑ papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 214ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ

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[4] dularheim ‘world of delusion’: Is in 166bˣ, and a limited range of other mss, cf. dul ‘delusion’ in 34/1. Dvalarheim ‘world where we stay’, as in papp15ˣ and 738ˣ, is elsewhere the dominant reading and has been adopted by all other eds. For the sentiment that happiness is the result of not knowing one’s fate, cf. Hávm 55, 56.

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heim ‘a world’

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heimr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): home, abode; world < dularheimr (noun m.)heimr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): home, abode; world < dvalarheimr (noun m.)

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[4] dularheim ‘world of delusion’: Is in 166bˣ, and a limited range of other mss, cf. dul ‘delusion’ in 34/1. Dvalarheim ‘world where we stay’, as in papp15ˣ and 738ˣ, is elsewhere the dominant reading and has been adopted by all other eds. For the sentiment that happiness is the result of not knowing one’s fate, cf. Hávm 55, 56.

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hefr ‘has’

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hafa (verb): have

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skapat ‘created’

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2. skapa (verb): form

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muna ‘of pleasures’

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munr (noun m.; °-ar/-s, dat. -/-i; -ir, acc. -i): mind, pleasure < munafullr (adj.)

[6] munafullan: munaþfullan 214ˣ

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mjök ‘very’

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mjǫk (adv.): very, much

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