Anon Sól 73VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 73’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 347-8.
Helgar ‘Holy’
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heilagr (adj.; °helgan; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): holy, sacred
notes
[1] helgar meyjar ‘holy maidens’: Cf. mála-dísir dróttins ‘confidential dísir of the Lord’ in 25/1 and contrast meyjar heljar ‘Hell’s maidens’ in 38/4.
meyjar ‘maidens’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
notes
[1] helgar meyjar ‘holy maidens’: Cf. mála-dísir dróttins ‘confidential dísir of the Lord’ in 25/1 and contrast meyjar heljar ‘Hell’s maidens’ in 38/4.
höfðu ‘had’
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hafa (verb): have
hreinliga ‘clean [lit. cleanly]’
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hreinliga (adv.): cleanly
[2] hreinliga: hreinligan 214ˣ
sál ‘the souls’
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sál (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): soul
af ‘of’
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af (prep.): from
synðum ‘sin’
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synð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): sin
þvegit ‘washed’
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1. þvá (verb): wash
þeira ‘of those’
[4] manna þeira: menn þeir 738ˣ
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
morgun ‘’
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morginn (noun m.; °morgins, dat. morgni; morgnar): morning
helgum ‘’
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heilagr (adj.; °helgan; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): holy, sacred
degi ‘a day’
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dagr (noun m.; °-s, dat. degi/dag/dagi(Thom¹ 332¹n.); -ar): day
pína ‘mortify’
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3. pína (verb): torture, torment
notes
[6] pína ‘[they] mortify, torture’: So also Bugge, Fidjestøl and Njörður Njarðvík. Skj B, Falk, Björn M. Ólsen and Skald emend the 3rd pers. pl. pres. indic. pína to 3rd pers. pl. pret. indic. píndu, presumably on grounds of sense, that men’s self-mortification must have preceded their absolution by the holy maidens. A similar use of the pres. tense is at 61/2 ala ‘they nourish’.
sjálfa ‘themselves’
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sjalfr (adj.): self
sik ‘’
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sik (pron.; °gen. sín, dat. sér): (refl. pron.)
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[4-6]: Paasche (1948, 193) compares the adjuration to mortification of the flesh in HómÍsl 1872, 60.
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