Anon Heil 15VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra manna drápa 15’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 883.
píndi ‘tormented’
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3. pína (verb): torture, torment
byskup ‘bishop’
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1. byskup (noun m.; °-s/-(cf. [$489$]), dat. -i/-; -ar): bishop
notes
[3-4] beiða ljósan byskup skjótt, að leiðiz fyr hann ‘request that the radiant bishop be quickly brought before him’: The construction here seems to be a blend of an acc. inf. (beiða + acc. ljósan byskup + inf. with passive sense, ‘asked the bishop to be led’) and an að-cl. with a subj. verb.
ljósan ‘radiant’
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ljóss (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): bright
notes
[3-4] beiða ljósan byskup skjótt, að leiðiz fyr hann ‘request that the radiant bishop be quickly brought before him’: The construction here seems to be a blend of an acc. inf. (beiða + acc. ljósan byskup + inf. with passive sense, ‘asked the bishop to be led’) and an að-cl. with a subj. verb.
beiða ‘request’
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beiða (verb; °-dd-): ask, request
notes
[3-4] beiða ljósan byskup skjótt, að leiðiz fyr hann ‘request that the radiant bishop be quickly brought before him’: The construction here seems to be a blend of an acc. inf. (beiða + acc. ljósan byskup + inf. with passive sense, ‘asked the bishop to be led’) and an að-cl. with a subj. verb.
skjótt ‘quickly’
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2. skjótr (adj.): quick(ly)
notes
[3-4] beiða ljósan byskup skjótt, að leiðiz fyr hann ‘request that the radiant bishop be quickly brought before him’: The construction here seems to be a blend of an acc. inf. (beiða + acc. ljósan byskup + inf. with passive sense, ‘asked the bishop to be led’) and an að-cl. with a subj. verb.
að ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
notes
[3-4] beiða ljósan byskup skjótt, að leiðiz fyr hann ‘request that the radiant bishop be quickly brought before him’: The construction here seems to be a blend of an acc. inf. (beiða + acc. ljósan byskup + inf. with passive sense, ‘asked the bishop to be led’) and an að-cl. with a subj. verb.
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
notes
[3-4] beiða ljósan byskup skjótt, að leiðiz fyr hann ‘request that the radiant bishop be quickly brought before him’: The construction here seems to be a blend of an acc. inf. (beiða + acc. ljósan byskup + inf. with passive sense, ‘asked the bishop to be led’) and an að-cl. with a subj. verb.
hann ‘him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[3-4] beiða ljósan byskup skjótt, að leiðiz fyr hann ‘request that the radiant bishop be quickly brought before him’: The construction here seems to be a blend of an acc. inf. (beiða + acc. ljósan byskup + inf. with passive sense, ‘asked the bishop to be led’) and an að-cl. with a subj. verb.
leiðiz ‘brought’
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2. leiða (verb; -dd): lead; (-sk) grow tired
notes
[3-4] beiða ljósan byskup skjótt, að leiðiz fyr hann ‘request that the radiant bishop be quickly brought before him’: The construction here seems to be a blend of an acc. inf. (beiða + acc. ljósan byskup + inf. with passive sense, ‘asked the bishop to be led’) and an að-cl. with a subj. verb.
Illir ‘Wicked men’
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illr (adj.): bad, evil, unwell
fundu ‘found’
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2. finna (verb): find, meet
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
einum ‘a’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
helli ‘cave’
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1. hella (noun f.; °-u; -ur): cave, slab
úti ‘outside’
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úti (adv.): out, outdoors, out at sea, abroad
lágu ‘lay’
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liggja (verb): lie
dýr ‘animals’
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1. dýr (noun n.; °-s (spec.: dyʀiɴs KonrA 66⁴, etc., cf. Seip 1955 188-189); -): animal
fyr ‘’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
skúta ‘the cavern’
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skúti (noun m.; °-a): overhanging cliff
brúðar ‘of a woman’
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brúðr (noun f.; °brúðar, dat. & acc. brúði; brúðir): woman, bride
leysti ‘released’
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leysa (verb): release, loosen, redeem
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
bur ‘the son’
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burr (noun m.; °; -ir): son
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
dauða ‘death’
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dauði (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death
bein ‘a bone’
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bein (noun n.; °-s; -): bone
var ‘’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
að ‘’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
kverka ‘in his throat’
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kverk (noun f.; °; kverkr/-ar): throat < kverkamein (noun n.)
meini ‘caused him pain’
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mein (noun n.; °-s; -): harm, injury < kverkamein (noun n.)
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Stanzas 15-19 concern S. Blaise (Blasius, bishop of Sebastea in Armenia, c. C4th), a martyr popular in Medieval Europe and in Iceland, who was attributed with miracle-working powers, particularly in respect of diseased animals and humans, on account of some of the miracles ascribed to him. He was regarded as particularly effective in curing afflictions of the throat (see st. 15/8 and Cormack 1994, 68). Cormack (1994, 85) surmises that the cult of Blaise in Iceland may have been stimulated by pilgrims to the monastery of Reichenau, of which he was patron, and by the dedication to him (along with S. Giles) of an altar in the crypt of Lund Cathedral in 1131. Blasíus saga appears to have been translated first into Norw.; a fragment from c. 1150 is extant and there is another, Icel. fragment, based on this translation, from C13th (Unger 1877, I, 256-71; Widding, Bekker-Nielsen and Shook 1963, 303; Foote 1962, 23). In Iceland, the cult of Blaise seems to have been confined to the south-western part of the island. — [1]: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends A... ...aust to Agrícolaus. Agricolaus is the name of Blaise’s antagonist in the ON prose saga (Unger 1877, I, 257). — [2]: To Finnur Jónsson (Skj A and B) ‘tí’ was visible before ‘...mus’. 399aˣ adds the abbreviated stef Skírir menn immediately after beima, but this evidently belongs to the previous st. — [7-8]: These ll. allude to Blaise’s saving the life of a child who was choking on a fish bone.
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