Anon Sól 45VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 45’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 326-7.
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
síðan ‘again’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
aldri ‘never’
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aldri (adv.): never
eptir ‘after’
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eptir (prep.): after, behind
dapra ‘gloomy’
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dapr (adj.): gloomy
dag ‘day’
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dagr (noun m.; °-s, dat. degi/dag/dagi(Thom¹ 332¹n.); -ar): day
þvít ‘for’
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þvít (conj.): because, since
fjalla ‘of the mountains’
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1. fjall (noun n.): mountain
notes
[4] vötn fjalla ‘the waters of the mountains’: Falk (1914a, 26-7) relates these to the straumar gylfar of 42/4; water and mountain are part of the landscape of the entrance to the Other World. Paasche (1914a, 146) and Björn M. Ólsen (1915, 44) construe vötn fjalla as ‘lakes of the mountains’; for Paasche these close together, lukðusk saman, as the soul flies above the earth. Björn M. Ólsen objects to the presence of mountain-lakes in the seascape he imagines, and emends fjalla to fjarla ‘distant’. Njörður Njarðvík (1991, 76) compares the eschatological prophecy of Isa. XXX.25: et erunt super omnem montem excelsum et super omnem collem elevatum rivi currentium aquarum in die interfectionis multorum cum ceciderint turres ‘and there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every elevated hill rivers of running waters on the day of the slaughter of many, when the towers shall fall’.
vötn ‘the waters’
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vatn (noun n.; °-s; -*): water, lake
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[4] vötn fjalla ‘the waters of the mountains’: Falk (1914a, 26-7) relates these to the straumar gylfar of 42/4; water and mountain are part of the landscape of the entrance to the Other World. Paasche (1914a, 146) and Björn M. Ólsen (1915, 44) construe vötn fjalla as ‘lakes of the mountains’; for Paasche these close together, lukðusk saman, as the soul flies above the earth. Björn M. Ólsen objects to the presence of mountain-lakes in the seascape he imagines, and emends fjalla to fjarla ‘distant’. Njörður Njarðvík (1991, 76) compares the eschatological prophecy of Isa. XXX.25: et erunt super omnem montem excelsum et super omnem collem elevatum rivi currentium aquarum in die interfectionis multorum cum ceciderint turres ‘and there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every elevated hill rivers of running waters on the day of the slaughter of many, when the towers shall fall’.
lukðuz ‘closed’
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1. lúka (verb): end, close
yfir ‘’
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yfir (prep.): over
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
saman ‘together’
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saman (adv.): together
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hvarf ‘turned away’
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1. hverfa (verb): turn, disappear
kallaðr ‘’
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kalla (verb): call
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[6] kaldr ‘cold’: This adj. appears in 166bˣ and in many other mss, making reasonable sense, and is accepted by Skj B and Skald. Kallaðr ‘called’ in papp15ˣ, 2797ˣ and another 28 mss was adopted by Bugge, Falk, Björn M. Ólsen, Fidjestøl and Njörður Njarðvík. Since it often collocates with kvölum, cf. st. 24/6, it may have been attracted into the st. for that reason.
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
kvölum ‘the torments’
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kvǫl (noun f.; °-ar; -ar/-ir): torment, torture
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