Anon Sól 42VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 42’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 324-5.
Sól ‘the sun’
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sól (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): sun
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
sá ‘saw’
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2. sjá (verb): see
svá ‘so much’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
geislaði ‘dazzled’
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geisla (verb): [coloured, dazzled]
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þóttumz ‘seemed’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
notes
[3] þóttumz ‘I seemed’: Lit. ‘I seemed (to myself)’; the phrase probably implies that the speaker loses consciousness, cf. Njörður Njarðvík (1991, 73).
vætki ‘nothing’
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vættki (noun n.; °vettugis/vettergis, dat. vettugi): nothing
vita ‘to know’
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1. vita (verb): know
en ‘but’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
gilnar ‘’
notes
[4] gylfar ‘of the sea’: This word occurs only here in OIcel. and does not exist in MIcel. Bugge (1867, 364), though he adduces ON gjálfr ‘the sound of the sea’ and by extension ‘sea’ (LP: gjálfr), reads Gylfar as a gen. pers. n., derived from *Gylfr, meaning ‘gulf, body of water’. However, there is no such word recorded in ON. Falk (1914, 26) relates it to a Norw. dialect word he gives as gyl ‘mountain-cleft’, cf. OED: gill n.2, noting that the entrance to the ON underworld is sometimes envisaged as a headland (Egill St 25V; Fáfn 11/2) and linking a water-filled cleft to the vötn fjalla ‘mountain waters’ of 45/4. LP: Gylfr (?), f. (?) notes the obscurity of the word’s form and meaning. Skj B, as also Skald, gives Gilfar, a pers. n., apparently derived from *Gylfr. Björn M. Ólsen (1915, 43) emends to Gylfa, from Gylfi, a sea-king name, and thus interprets Gylfa straumar ‘the currents of Gylfi’ as a kenning for the sea. It seems likely that the word does have some association with the sea (cf. AEW: Gylfi, which cites gylfr, f. a river name, also ‘wave, sea’ as cognate); whether it is a common noun or a pers. n. is uncertain.
straumar ‘the currents’
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straumr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): stream, current
á ‘’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
annan ‘in the other’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
[5] annan: á annan 738ˣ, 1441ˣ, 2797ˣ
veg ‘direction’
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1. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar/-ir, gen. -a/-na, acc. -a/-i/-u): way, path, side
blandnir ‘mingled’
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2. blanda (verb; °blendr; blett, blendu; blandinn): mix, blend (strong)
[6] blandnir: blandaðir papp15ˣ, blandnar 738ˣ
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
blóð ‘blood’
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blóð (noun n.; °-s): blood
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