Anon Heil 25VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra manna drápa 25’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 889-90.
Maurícíus ‘Maurice’
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Mauricíus (noun m.): [Maurice]
mikilli ‘a large’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
stýrir ‘rules over’
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stýra (verb): steer, control
manna ‘of men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
fjöld ‘crowd’
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fjǫlð (noun f.): multitude
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
Rómam ‘Rome’
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Róma (noun f.): [Rome]
kannar ‘contemplate’
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3. kanna (verb): know, be able
sex ‘six’
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sex (num. cardinal): six
þúsundir ‘thousand’
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1. þúsund (noun f.; °; -ir): thousand
sætri ‘with sweet’
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sœtr (adj.): sweet
notes
[3] sætri (f. dat. sg.) ‘sweet’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) notes that here it probably means ‘Christian’.
huxan ‘thought’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
sex ‘six’
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sex (num. cardinal): six
hundruð ‘hundred’
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hundrað (noun n.; °-s; hundruð/-): hundred
sem ‘whom’
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sem (conj.): as, which
fylgja ‘accompany’
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2. fylgja (verb): follow, accompany
mundi ‘would’
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munu (verb): will, must
Þanninn ‘Thus’
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þannig (adv.): thus, there, that way
frá ‘heard’
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frá (prep.): from
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
að ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
þrír ‘thir’
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þrír (num. cardinal): three
tvennir ‘two sets of’
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tvennr (adj.): two
þeir ‘they’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
eru ‘are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
sex ‘six’
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sex (num. cardinal): six
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
kallaz ‘are counted’
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kalla (verb): call
meiri ‘in addition’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
Sýrlands ‘of Syria’
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Sýrland (noun n.): [Syria]
kennings
sætum jarli Sýrlands‘the sweet earl of Syria ’
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the sweet earl of Syria → Maurice
notes
[7] með sætum jarli Sýrlands ‘with the sweet earl of Syria’: The kenning refers to Maurice, though his country of origin was usually represented as Egypt, not Syria.
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
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[7] með sætum jarli Sýrlands ‘with the sweet earl of Syria’: The kenning refers to Maurice, though his country of origin was usually represented as Egypt, not Syria.
sætum ‘the sweet’
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sœtr (adj.): sweet
kennings
sætum jarli Sýrlands‘the sweet earl of Syria ’
= Maurice
the sweet earl of Syria → Maurice
notes
[7] með sætum jarli Sýrlands ‘with the sweet earl of Syria’: The kenning refers to Maurice, though his country of origin was usually represented as Egypt, not Syria.
jarli ‘earl’
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jarl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): poet, earl
kennings
sætum jarli Sýrlands‘the sweet earl of Syria ’
= Maurice
the sweet earl of Syria → Maurice
notes
[7] með sætum jarli Sýrlands ‘with the sweet earl of Syria’: The kenning refers to Maurice, though his country of origin was usually represented as Egypt, not Syria.
sunnan ‘from the south’
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sunnan (adv.): (from the) south
kvámu ‘came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
drottni ‘the Lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
unnu ‘loved’
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1. unna (verb): love
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Maurice rules over a large crowd of men, who contemplate Rome with sweet thought, six thousand, whom six hundred would accompany. Thus I heard that two sets of thirty, [and] they are six, who are counted in addition, now came from the south with the sweet earl of Syria [= Maurice] and loved the Lord.
Sts 25-6 commemorate Maurice (Mauritius) of Agaunum (Saint-Maurice en Valais, Switzerland) and his companions. According to legend, a Roman legion of Christian soldiers from Egypt, the Theban legion, under the command of Maurice, was serving in Gaul (ON Valland), when it mutinied at Agaunum, because its members had been ordered to take part in heathen sacrifices. This act of disobedience led to their martyrdom. Two Icel. versions of Mauritius saga exist, one in a C13th fragment, the other in a ms. from c. 1400 (Unger 1877, I, 643-58; Widding, Bekker-Nielsen and Shook 1963, 325; Foote 1962, 28). Maurice was co-patron of the church at Bær in Borgarfjörður (Cormack 1994, 132). The location of Maurice’s place of martyrdom, on the pilgrimage route to Rome, is noted in Abbot Nikulás’s Leiðarvísir (Lat. Itinerarium ‘travel guide’) recorded in AM 194 8° (1387), AÍ I, 15, ll. 4-7. — [3-6]: The play on numbers here is meant to recall the number of men in a Roman legion, 6666 (as noted by Finnur Jónsson in Skj B, though he wrongly glosses tvennir þrír tigu as 20 gange 30 ‘twenty times thirty’).
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