Anon Vitn 21VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Vitnisvísur af Máríu 21’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 754.
Þagnar ‘falls silent’
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þagna (verb): be silent
sætan ‘lady’
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sœtr (adj.): sweet
sonr ‘son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
[2] sonr: son 713, 721
hennar ‘her’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
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[2] rieð ‘did’: Used periphrastically with infin. fylla. Tók ‘began’ (so 712) is syntactically and metrically possible.
fylla ‘validate’
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fylla (verb): fill
framburð ‘statement’
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framburðr (noun m.): [statement]
allan ‘entire’
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allr (adj.): all
fríð ‘the splendid’
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fríðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): beautiful, fair
notes
[4] fríð sannindi (n. acc. pl.) ‘splendid truth’: Lit. ‘splendid truths’. Sperber takes this as an expression for Christ (so also Schottmann 1973, 68 and n. 13, 375).
sannindi ‘truth’
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2. sannendi (noun n.): truth
notes
[4] fríð sannindi (n. acc. pl.) ‘splendid truth’: Lit. ‘splendid truths’. Sperber takes this as an expression for Christ (so also Schottmann 1973, 68 and n. 13, 375).
vitni ‘witness’
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2. vitni (noun n.; °-s; -): witness
ber ‘bear’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
brúði ‘about the woman’
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brúðr (noun f.; °brúðar, dat. & acc. brúði; brúðir): woman, bride
bjart ‘bright’
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bjartr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): bright
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
gott ‘good’
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góðr (adj.): good
notes
[6] gott ... dróttinn: The internal rhyme (-ott : -ótt-) is skothent rather than aðalhent, but it probably indicates the instability of the length of the vowel preceding the consonant cluster -tt. It is unclear whether the [o:] has been already shortened to [o], and here and elsewhere the length has been retained graphemically as <ó> in dróttinn ‘Lord’.
kvað ‘said’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
dróttinn ‘the Lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
notes
[6] gott ... dróttinn: The internal rhyme (-ott : -ótt-) is skothent rather than aðalhent, but it probably indicates the instability of the length of the vowel preceding the consonant cluster -tt. It is unclear whether the [o:] has been already shortened to [o], and here and elsewhere the length has been retained graphemically as <ó> in dróttinn ‘Lord’.
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
sem ‘which’
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sem (conj.): as, which
mín ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
bar ‘bore’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
móðir ‘mother’
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móðir (noun f.): mother
mær ‘the maiden’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
hefir ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
satt ‘a true’
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2. sannr (adj.; °-an; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): true
kæra ‘complain’
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3. kæra (verb): complain, bring a charge
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Cf. Mar (1871, 302): Þat sama ber ek her vm sem móðir min ‘I bear the same [testimony] about this as my mother’.
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