Anon Sól 9VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 9’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 301-2.
Ekki ‘not’
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2. ekki (adv.): not
þeir ‘’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[1] þeir: þau 214ˣ
hugðu ‘think’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
Unn ‘’
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Unnr (noun m.): Unnr
Unnarr ‘Unnarr’
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Unnarr (noun m.): Unnarr
[2] Unnarr: so papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, ‘unr’ 166bˣ, Unn 214ˣ
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
Sævaldi ‘Sævaldi’
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Sævaldi (noun m.): Sævaldi
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
þeim ‘their’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[3] þeim mundi heill hrapa ‘their good fortune would tumble down’: Although the sense is somewhat different, cf. Reg 25/6 illt er fyr heill at hrapa ‘it is bad to stumble when good fortune is needed’. According to LP: 3. heill, these two instances are the only collocations of heill and hrapa in the corpus. Njörður Njarðvík (1991, 180) suggests somewhat improbably that this may be evidence of a direct link between the two poems.
mundi ‘would’
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munu (verb): will, must
notes
[3] þeim mundi heill hrapa ‘their good fortune would tumble down’: Although the sense is somewhat different, cf. Reg 25/6 illt er fyr heill at hrapa ‘it is bad to stumble when good fortune is needed’. According to LP: 3. heill, these two instances are the only collocations of heill and hrapa in the corpus. Njörður Njarðvík (1991, 180) suggests somewhat improbably that this may be evidence of a direct link between the two poems.
heill ‘good fortune’
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1. heill (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): good fortune
notes
[3] þeim mundi heill hrapa ‘their good fortune would tumble down’: Although the sense is somewhat different, cf. Reg 25/6 illt er fyr heill at hrapa ‘it is bad to stumble when good fortune is needed’. According to LP: 3. heill, these two instances are the only collocations of heill and hrapa in the corpus. Njörður Njarðvík (1991, 180) suggests somewhat improbably that this may be evidence of a direct link between the two poems.
hrapa ‘tumble down’
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hrapa (verb): [tumble down, rush]
notes
[3] þeim mundi heill hrapa ‘their good fortune would tumble down’: Although the sense is somewhat different, cf. Reg 25/6 illt er fyr heill at hrapa ‘it is bad to stumble when good fortune is needed’. According to LP: 3. heill, these two instances are the only collocations of heill and hrapa in the corpus. Njörður Njarðvík (1991, 180) suggests somewhat improbably that this may be evidence of a direct link between the two poems.
nöktir ‘naked’
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nøkkviðr (adj.): naked
[4] nöktir þeir urðu: so papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ; nöktir: blank space 166bˣ
þeir ‘they’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[4] nöktir þeir urðu: so papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ
urðu ‘became’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
[4] nöktir þeir urðu: so papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ
næmðir ‘deprived’
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1. nema (verb): to take
[5] næmðir: næmir papp15ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
runnu ‘ran’
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2. renna (verb): run (strong)
sem ‘like’
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sem (conj.): as, which
notes
[6] vargar ‘wolves’: Cf. HHund II 33: ef þú værir vargr á viðom úti ‘if you were a wolf out in the woods’.
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
viðar ‘the woods’
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1. viðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -u/-i): wood, tree
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Unnarr and Sævaldi are the first of a number of characters in the poem whose quasi-allegorical names are apparently invented, though they may consist of pre-existing name elements such as -ulfr ‘-wolf’ or -ný (cf. AEW: -ný). (Sörli and Vígolfr in st. 20 as attested pers. names are the exception.) That four of the five exempla in the first section of Sól concern paired allegorically-named characters motivates Falk, following Bugge and Vigfússon, to move st. 80, with its isolated reference to Sváfr and Sváfrlogi to initial position in the poem (Falk 1914, 2). There is a comparable use of invented names in Fj. — [4]: This l. is missing in 166bˣ.
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