Anon Sól 77VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 77’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 351.
Óðins ‘Óðinn’s’
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Óðinn (noun m.): Óðinn
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[1] Óðins kván ‘Óðinn’s wife’: Frigg, or conceivably Freyja, as Björn M. Ólsen (1915, 59) and Paasche (1914a, 158) suggest. Both goddesses are associated with Venus in homiletic writing, both in ON and OE, symbolising sexual desire. Ælfric of Eynsham names Frigg as þære sceamleasan gydenan ‘the shameless goddess’ (Pope 1967-8, 686); Freyja is noted as Freyja portkona ‘Freyja the whore’ in Heilagra manna søgur (Unger 1877, I, 417; II, 233).
kon ‘’
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konr (noun m.; °-ar): kind, descendant
notes
[1] Óðins kván ‘Óðinn’s wife’: Frigg, or conceivably Freyja, as Björn M. Ólsen (1915, 59) and Paasche (1914a, 158) suggest. Both goddesses are associated with Venus in homiletic writing, both in ON and OE, symbolising sexual desire. Ælfric of Eynsham names Frigg as þære sceamleasan gydenan ‘the shameless goddess’ (Pope 1967-8, 686); Freyja is noted as Freyja portkona ‘Freyja the whore’ in Heilagra manna søgur (Unger 1877, I, 417; II, 233).
rær ‘rows’
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2. róa (verb): row
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
jarðar ‘of the earth’
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jǫrð (noun f.; °jarðar, dat. -u; jarðir/jarðar(DN I (1367) 304)): ground, earth
[2] jarðar: jarður 214ˣ
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[2] skipi jarðar ‘on the ship of the earth’: That the world can be symbolised by a ship is a homiletic commonplace; cf. Lange (1958a, 257-8) who adduces a homily about the ship of the earth in AM 673 a 4o. Here, however, the Christian symbol is given a traditional ON context, and associated with the persistent force of sexual desire, linked with the dominance of female powers. The metaphor of the world as a ship is elaborated in the second half of the st.; see Fidjestøl 1979, 56-7.
skipi ‘the ship’
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skip (noun n.; °-s; -): ship
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[2] skipi jarðar ‘on the ship of the earth’: That the world can be symbolised by a ship is a homiletic commonplace; cf. Lange (1958a, 257-8) who adduces a homily about the ship of the earth in AM 673 a 4o. Here, however, the Christian symbol is given a traditional ON context, and associated with the persistent force of sexual desire, linked with the dominance of female powers. The metaphor of the world as a ship is elaborated in the second half of the st.; see Fidjestøl 1979, 56-7.
móðug ‘mighty’
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móðugr (adj.): [mighty]
[3] móðug á munað: so papp15ˣ, 214ˣ, 10575ˣ, í móðugum munað 166bˣ, 214ˣ, í móðug á munað 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 1441ˣ
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[3] móðug á munað ‘mighty in desire’: 166bˣ’s reading, as well as those of many of the other mss, seems to be the result of confusion about word division.
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
[3] móðug á munað: so papp15ˣ, 214ˣ, 10575ˣ, í móðugum munað 166bˣ, 214ˣ, í móðug á munað 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 1441ˣ
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[3] móðug á munað ‘mighty in desire’: 166bˣ’s reading, as well as those of many of the other mss, seems to be the result of confusion about word division.
munað ‘desire’
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munaðr (noun m.; °; gen. -aða): desire
[3] móðug á munað: so papp15ˣ, 214ˣ, 10575ˣ, í móðugum munað 166bˣ, 214ˣ, í móðug á munað 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 1441ˣ
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[3] móðug á munað ‘mighty in desire’: 166bˣ’s reading, as well as those of many of the other mss, seems to be the result of confusion about word division.
seglum ‘sails’
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segl (noun n.; °-s; -): sail
hennar ‘her’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
verðr ‘will be’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
síð ‘late’
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2. síð (adv.): late
hlaðit ‘furled’
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2. hlaða (verb): heap, pile
er ‘which’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
þrá ‘of longing’
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2. þrá (noun n.): [longing] < þráreip (noun n.)
reipum ‘the ropes’
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reip (noun n.; °-s; -): rope < þráreip (noun n.)
þruma ‘hang’
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3. þruma (verb): ? - used this one
[6] þruma: so 2797ˣ, ‘þumu’ 166bˣ, ‘þumar’ papp15ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ, ‘þrymur’ 738ˣ, ‘þrimur’ 167b 6ˣ, þrumir 10575ˣ
notes
[6] þruma ‘hang’: 2797ˣ’s reading looks like an intelligent guess for a word which most mss had difficulty with; the form is found in 5 other mss and as a correction in a further 3. The readings of 738ˣ, 10575ˣ and a further 15 mss may also derive from þruma, which gives good sense, even if the word is not widely attested with this meaning, as Njörður Njarðvík (1991, 101) points out. Its normal sense is ‘to stand, sit fast, loiter, mope’.
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