Anon Sól 75VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 75’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 349.
Inn ‘’
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2. inn (art.): the
mátki ‘Mighty’
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máttigr (adj.; °compar. -ari/-ri, superl. -astr): mighty
faðir ‘Father’
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faðir (noun m.): father
mestr ‘’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
mæzti ‘most glorious’
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2. mærr (adj.): famous
[2] mæzti: so 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, mestr 166bˣ, papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ
sonr ‘Son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
heilagr ‘Holy’
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heilagr (adj.; °helgan; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): holy, sacred
[3] heilagr: H. 166bˣ
andi ‘Spirit’
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andi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): spirit, soul
himins ‘of heaven’
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himinn (noun m.; °himins, dat. himni; himnar): heaven, sky
Þik ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
bið ‘ask’
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biðja (verb; °biðr; bað, báðu; beðinn (beiþ- Martin¹ 573, bỏþ- HákEirsp 661, cf. ed. intr. xl)): ask for, order, pray
[4] bið: biðr papp15ˣ, 2797ˣ
leysa ‘’
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leysa (verb): release, loosen, redeem
skilja ‘to release’
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1. skilja (verb): separate, understand
[4] skilja: so 214ˣ, 2797ˣ, leysa all others
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
hefr ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
oss ‘us’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
alla ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
synðum ‘’
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synð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): sin
eymðum ‘miseries’
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eymð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): misery
[6] eymðum: so 214ˣ, 2797ˣ, synðum all others
notes
[6] eymðum ‘miseries, wretchedness’: 43 mss read synðum ‘sins’, but a substantial minority (21) read eymðum, which is the lectio difficilior and improves the alliteration, as this cannot rest on oss alla; the reading is accepted by Skj B, Skald, Björn M. Ólsen, Falk and Fidjestøl and adopted here.
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
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There are a number of metrical and alliterative irregularities affecting this st., as it is presented in 166bˣ and other early modern mss. Probably as a result of scribal awareness of these irregularities, several later mss present texts that correct them, and these readings have been adopted here, in ll. 2, 4 and 6. — [2]: 166bˣ’s ‘mestr sonr’ is unmetrical; adopting the weak form of the adj., preceded by the def. art. inn, restores metrical regularity to the l.
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