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Þul Sjóvar 3III

Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sjóvar heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 836.

Anonymous ÞulurSjóvar heiti
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Gnat ‘Din’

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gnat (noun n.)

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[1] gnat, vǫrr, vika ‘din, ship’s wake, sea-mile’: Kock (NN §3138; Skald) rearranges this sequence of heiti as Vǫrr, gnat, vika to achieve alliteration on the first lift.

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vǫrr ‘ship’s wake’

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1. vǫrr (noun m.; °dat. verri; acc. vǫrru): oar-stroke

[1] vǫrr: vǫr all others

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[1] gnat, vǫrr, vika ‘din, ship’s wake, sea-mile’: Kock (NN §3138; Skald) rearranges this sequence of heiti as Vǫrr, gnat, vika to achieve alliteration on the first lift.

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vika ‘sea-mile’

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vika (noun f.; °-u; -ur): week

[1] vika: ‘[…]’ B, ‘vika’ 744ˣ

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[1] gnat, vǫrr, vika ‘din, ship’s wake, sea-mile’: Kock (NN §3138; Skald) rearranges this sequence of heiti as Vǫrr, gnat, vika to achieve alliteration on the first lift.

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vǫst ‘fishing-ground’

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vǫst (noun f.): sea, ocean

[2] vǫst: ‘vizt’ B

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hóp ‘inlet’

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hóp (noun n.): [company, bay]

[2] hóp: so all others, hof R

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ok ‘and’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

[2] ok: om.

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vatn ‘water’

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vatn (noun n.; °-s; -*): water, lake

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ok ‘and’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

[3] ok: om.

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kaf ‘depth’

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kaf (noun n.; °; *-): deep sea

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vík ‘bay’

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vík (noun f.): bay

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tjǫrn ‘tarn’

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tjǫrn (noun f.; °tjarnar; tjarnir): °lille sø, sump, ?mose; pøl, pyt; (for tjara sb. f.)

[4] tjǫrn: ‘t[…]’ B, ‘tio᷎rn’ 744ˣ

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ok ‘and’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

[4] ok: om. Tˣ, ‘[…]’ B, ‘ok’ 744ˣ

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sík ‘watercourse’

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sík (noun n.; °-s; -): fish, ?channel

[4] sík: ‘[…]ik’ B, ‘sik’ 744ˣ

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stormr ‘storm’

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stormr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): storm

[5] stormr: ‘[…]r’ B, ‘. . . mr’ 744ˣ

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díki ‘ditch’

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díki (noun n.; °; -): ditch

[5] díki: dík C

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ok ‘and’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

[6] ok: om. Tˣ, ‘[…]’ B, ok 744ˣ

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bekkr ‘brook’

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2. bekkr (noun m.; °-jar/-s, dat. -/-i; -ir): spring

[6] bekkr: ‘[…]eckr’ B, ‘beckr’ 744ˣ

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áll ‘channel’

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2. áll (noun m.): channel

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kelda ‘well’

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kelda (noun f.; °-u; -ur): [kilde]

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iða ‘eddy’

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iða (noun f.; °-u; -ur): [Iðunn, actions]

[8] iða: om. B

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fors ‘waterfall’

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fors (noun m.): torrent

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ok ‘and’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

[8] ok: om. Tˣ, C

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kíll ‘creek’

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kíll (noun m.): °bæk, flodarm

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Of the sea-heiti listed in this stanza, gnat n. ‘din’, vika f. ‘sea-mile’ (l. 1), stormr m. ‘storm’ m. (l. 5), iða f. ‘eddy’ and kíll m. ‘creek’ (l. 8) never occur in skaldic poetry as terms for ‘sea’, but gnat appears once in the rímur in a kenning for ‘poetry’ (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: gnat).

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