Anon Vitn 19VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Vitnisvísur af Máríu 19’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 752-3.
Láttu ‘let’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
líknar ‘Merciful’
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líkn (noun f.; °-ar; gen. -a): grace, mercy < líknarmey (noun f.)
kennings
‘Líknarmey dróttins,‘‘Merciful Virgin of the Lord, ’
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‘Merciful Virgin of the Lord, → Mary
mey ‘Virgin’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden < líknarmey (noun f.)
kennings
‘Líknarmey dróttins,‘‘Merciful Virgin of the Lord, ’
= Mary
‘Merciful Virgin of the Lord, → Mary
dróttins ‘of the Lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
kennings
‘Líknarmey dróttins,‘‘Merciful Virgin of the Lord, ’
= Mary
‘Merciful Virgin of the Lord, → Mary
leiðaz ‘be brought forward’
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2. leiða (verb; -dd): lead; (-sk) grow tired
próf ‘testimonies’
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próf (noun n.; °-s; -): [testimonies]
notes
[2] þar er beiðig ‘because I beg’: The ms. variants það er beiðig (so 721) and það eg beiði (so 713) are ungrammatical: the verb beiða ‘beg, ask, implore’ takes gen. of the thing, and það ‘that’ is n. acc. sg. Earlier eds accordingly emend það (n. acc. sg.) ‘that’ to þess (n. gen. sg.) ‘that’ (‘I ask that’). Clearly, the error must have originated in the misinterpretation of an abbreviation in the earlier ms. transmission. It is easy to see how the abbreviation for þar can be confused with the abbreviation for það, and also how er (so 721) can be confused with ‘ec’ (so 713). Beiðig ‘I ask’ (lit. ‘ask-I’; so 721) with the cliticised pron. is also more archaic than eg beiði (so 713).
notes
[2] þar er beiðig ‘because I beg’: The ms. variants það er beiðig (so 721) and það eg beiði (so 713) are ungrammatical: the verb beiða ‘beg, ask, implore’ takes gen. of the thing, and það ‘that’ is n. acc. sg. Earlier eds accordingly emend það (n. acc. sg.) ‘that’ to þess (n. gen. sg.) ‘that’ (‘I ask that’). Clearly, the error must have originated in the misinterpretation of an abbreviation in the earlier ms. transmission. It is easy to see how the abbreviation for þar can be confused with the abbreviation for það, and also how er (so 721) can be confused with ‘ec’ (so 713). Beiðig ‘I ask’ (lit. ‘ask-I’; so 721) with the cliticised pron. is also more archaic than eg beiði (so 713).
notes
[2] þar er beiðig ‘because I beg’: The ms. variants það er beiðig (so 721) and það eg beiði (so 713) are ungrammatical: the verb beiða ‘beg, ask, implore’ takes gen. of the thing, and það ‘that’ is n. acc. sg. Earlier eds accordingly emend það (n. acc. sg.) ‘that’ to þess (n. gen. sg.) ‘that’ (‘I ask that’). Clearly, the error must have originated in the misinterpretation of an abbreviation in the earlier ms. transmission. It is easy to see how the abbreviation for þar can be confused with the abbreviation for það, and also how er (so 721) can be confused with ‘ec’ (so 713). Beiðig ‘I ask’ (lit. ‘ask-I’; so 721) with the cliticised pron. is also more archaic than eg beiði (so 713).
þig ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
að ‘so that’
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4. at (conj.): that
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þörfnumz ‘be without’
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þarfna (verb): [be without]
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
þín ‘your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
notes
[4] þín ... minna: Note the imperfect rhyme -ín : -inn-.
riettinda ‘justice’
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réttendi (noun n.; °; -): [justice]
minna ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
notes
[4] þín ... minna: Note the imperfect rhyme -ín : -inn-.
Sýndu ‘show’
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sýna (verb): show, seem
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
sætleiks ‘of sweetness’
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sœtleikr (noun m.): sweetness
anda ‘a spirit’
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andi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): spirit, soul
sveit ‘to the crowd’
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sveit (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): host, company
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
alt ‘everything’
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allr (adj.): all
gott ‘good’
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góðr (adj.): good
veitir ‘offers’
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2. veita (verb): grant, give
notes
[7, 8] hvárt hefir sannara við annað ‘which one has the law on their side against the other’: For the legal expression hafa sannara ‘to be in the right, to have the law on one’s side’, see Fritzner: sannr 1. The n. forms hvárt ‘which one’ and annað ‘the other’ are used because of ‘mixed company’ (the woman and the man).
in ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
hæsta ‘highest’
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hœgri (adj. comp.): higher, highest
birti ‘brightness’
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birti (noun f.; °-): brightness
hefir ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
notes
[7, 8] hvárt hefir sannara við annað ‘which one has the law on their side against the other’: For the legal expression hafa sannara ‘to be in the right, to have the law on one’s side’, see Fritzner: sannr 1. The n. forms hvárt ‘which one’ and annað ‘the other’ are used because of ‘mixed company’ (the woman and the man).
sannara ‘the law on their side’
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2. sannr (adj.; °-an; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): true
notes
[7, 8] hvárt hefir sannara við annað ‘which one has the law on their side against the other’: For the legal expression hafa sannara ‘to be in the right, to have the law on one’s side’, see Fritzner: sannr 1. The n. forms hvárt ‘which one’ and annað ‘the other’ are used because of ‘mixed company’ (the woman and the man).
við ‘against’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
notes
[7, 8] hvárt hefir sannara við annað ‘which one has the law on their side against the other’: For the legal expression hafa sannara ‘to be in the right, to have the law on one’s side’, see Fritzner: sannr 1. The n. forms hvárt ‘which one’ and annað ‘the other’ are used because of ‘mixed company’ (the woman and the man).
annað ‘the other’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
notes
[7, 8] hvárt hefir sannara við annað ‘which one has the law on their side against the other’: For the legal expression hafa sannara ‘to be in the right, to have the law on one’s side’, see Fritzner: sannr 1. The n. forms hvárt ‘which one’ and annað ‘the other’ are used because of ‘mixed company’ (the woman and the man).
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