Þul Manna 8III
Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Manna heiti 8’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 783.
Ái ‘Great-grandfather’
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ái (noun m.): °older male relative (great-grandfather? cf. Rígsþula stanza 2) (lit.: progenitor, cf. [$549$])
áttungr ‘kinsman’
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1. áttungr (noun m.; °; -ar): kinsman
[1] áttungr: ‘[…]’ B, ‘áttungr’ 744ˣ
afi ‘grandfather’
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afi (noun m.; °-a): grandfather, man
[2] afi: arfi C, ‘[…]’ B, ‘auí’ 744ˣ
sonr ‘son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
[2] sonr faðir: ‘[…]’ B, ‘sonr fadir’ 744ˣ
bróðir ‘brother’
[3] bróðir barmi: ‘[…]dir […]’ B, ‘brodir barmi’ 744ˣ
barmi ‘bosom-brother’
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barmi (noun m.): brother
[3] bróðir barmi: ‘[…]dir […]’ B, ‘brodir barmi’ 744ˣ
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[4] blóði ok lifri ‘consanguinean and cognate’: Poetic words for ‘brother’, lit. ‘blood[-brother]’ and ‘from one liver’ (cf. lifr f. ‘liver’).
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[4] blóði ok lifri ‘consanguinean and cognate’: Poetic words for ‘brother’, lit. ‘blood[-brother]’ and ‘from one liver’ (cf. lifr f. ‘liver’).
lifri ‘cognate’
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lifri (noun m.): °(heiti; for bror)
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[4] blóði ok lifri ‘consanguinean and cognate’: Poetic words for ‘brother’, lit. ‘blood[-brother]’ and ‘from one liver’ (cf. lifr f. ‘liver’).
burr ‘son’
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burr (noun m.; °; -ir): son
nefi ‘nephew’
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nefi (noun m.; °-a): nephew
arfuni ‘inheritor’
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arfuni (noun m.): arfuni
eru ‘there are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
[7] þá eru hlýrar: ‘þa er[…]’ B, ‘þa eru hleý ar’ 744ˣ
hlýrar ‘twins’
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hlýri (noun m.): brother
[7] þá eru hlýrar: ‘þa er[…]’ B, ‘þa eru hleý ar’ 744ˣ
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[7] hlýrar ‘twins’: Pl. of hlýri m. (cf. hlýr n. ‘cheek’). As a term for ‘brother’, the word occurs only in poetry.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
[8] ok hǫfuðbaðmar: ‘[…]’ B, ‘ok hǫ᷎fut barmar’ 744ˣ
hǫfuðbaðmar ‘agnates’
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hǫfuðbaðmr (noun m.)
[8] ok hǫfuðbaðmar: ‘[…]’ B, ‘ok hǫ᷎fut barmar’ 744ˣ
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Most of the terms of kinship mentioned in this and the following stanzas, as well as various names for friends in st. 7, are also listed in the section of Skm dealing with the so-called viðkenningar (antonomasia) or fornǫfn (‘pronomina, substitutions’). Cf. Skm (SnE 1998, I, 107): Þat eru viðkenningar … at kalla hann þess er hann nefndi fǫður eða afa; ái er hinn þriði. Heitir ok sonr ok arfi, arfuni, barn, jóð ok mǫgr … Heitir ok bróðir blóði, barmi, hlýri, lifri. Heitir ok niðr nefi, áttungr, konr, kundr, frændi … niðjungr, ættstuðill, ættbarmr, kynkvísl, ættbogi … afspringr, hǫfuðbaðmr, ofskǫpt. Heita ok mágar sifjungar ‘These are antonomasia … to call someone father or grandfather of the one who was named; the third is great-grandfather. [A relative] is also called a son and heir, inheritor, child, baby and boy … A brother is also called a consanguinean, bosom-brother, twin, cognate. A relative is also called a nephew, kinsman, kin, kinsman, relation … descendant, family-pillar, issue, kin-branch, family line … offspring, agnate, lineage. In-laws are also called affines’. For the term antonomasia, see General Introduction in SkP I. The following terms are not otherwise attested in poetry: ái ‘great-grandfather’ (l. 1), afi ‘grandfather’ (l. 2) and arfuni ‘inheritor’ (l. 6).
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