Anon Vitn 22VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Vitnisvísur af Máríu 22’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 754-5.
Varð ‘were’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
af ‘by’
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af (prep.): from
vitnis ‘’
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2. vitni (noun n.; °-s; -): witness < vitnisburðr (noun m.)
burði ‘the testimony’
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burðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/-i; -ir): birth < vitnisburðr (noun m.)
virkur ‘The caring’
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virkr (adj.): considerate
lýðr ‘people’
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
kirkju ‘the church’
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kirkja (noun f.): church
til ‘’
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til (prep.): to
notes
[3] til mestrar mektar ‘the mightiest worship [lit. splendour]’: In the present edn this phrase is construed with the verb bjóða ‘offer’ (l. 4) (bjóða e-m til e-s ‘offer somebody something’; see LP: bjóða 2). Wrightson translates the sentence as ‘fired up to the utmost of their power to worship the mother of God’. However, bjóða (l. 4) cannot mean ‘worship’. Sperber takes bjóða til e-s in the meaning ‘turn to’ (see Fritzner: bjóða til 1) and translates sich an die Macht der Mutter Gottes wenden ‘turn to power of the mother of God’.
mestrar ‘the mightiest’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
notes
[3] til mestrar mektar ‘the mightiest worship [lit. splendour]’: In the present edn this phrase is construed with the verb bjóða ‘offer’ (l. 4) (bjóða e-m til e-s ‘offer somebody something’; see LP: bjóða 2). Wrightson translates the sentence as ‘fired up to the utmost of their power to worship the mother of God’. However, bjóða (l. 4) cannot mean ‘worship’. Sperber takes bjóða til e-s in the meaning ‘turn to’ (see Fritzner: bjóða til 1) and translates sich an die Macht der Mutter Gottes wenden ‘turn to power of the mother of God’.
mektar ‘splendour’
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mekt (noun f.; °-ar): might, power
notes
[3] til mestrar mektar ‘the mightiest worship [lit. splendour]’: In the present edn this phrase is construed with the verb bjóða ‘offer’ (l. 4) (bjóða e-m til e-s ‘offer somebody something’; see LP: bjóða 2). Wrightson translates the sentence as ‘fired up to the utmost of their power to worship the mother of God’. However, bjóða (l. 4) cannot mean ‘worship’. Sperber takes bjóða til e-s in the meaning ‘turn to’ (see Fritzner: bjóða til 1) and translates sich an die Macht der Mutter Gottes wenden ‘turn to power of the mother of God’.
móður ‘the mother’
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móðir (noun f.): mother
kennings
móður guðs‘the mother of God ’
= Mary
the mother of God → Mary
guðs ‘of God’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
kennings
móður guðs‘the mother of God ’
= Mary
the mother of God → Mary
að ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
bjóða ‘offer’
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bjóða (verb; °býðr; bauð, buðu; boðinn (buð- Thom¹ 5²n.)): offer, order, invite
Flokkr ‘crowd’
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flokkr (noun m.): group, flock
gjörði ‘gave’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
notes
[5] þá ‘then’: The adv. is necessary to restore alliteration and the correct number of syllables.
þakkir ‘thanks’
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þǫkk (noun f.; °þakkar; þakkar/þakkir): thanks
þannveg ‘thus’
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þannig (adv.): thus, there, that way
allr ‘The entire’
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allr (adj.): all
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
svanna ‘the woman’
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svanni (noun m.): lady, woman
lof ‘of praise’
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lof (noun n.; °-s; -): praise, leave, permission < lofsǫngr (noun m.)
saung ‘song’
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sǫngr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -vi/-; -var): song < lofsǫngr (noun m.)
unnu ‘made’
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1. unna (verb): love
þau ‘they’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[7] þau ‘they’: The pron. is extrametrical and has been omitted by most earlier eds.
ljúfan ‘a lovely’
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ljúfr (adj.): beloved
list ‘with skill’
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list (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): skill, art, virtue
notes
[8] list ‘artfully [lit. with skill]’: The noun is taken here as a dat. instr. (so also Skj B). Skald treats it as an acc., as a parallel object to lofsaung ‘song of praise’ (‘they made a song of praise, an art-performance’; see NN §1674). However, list ‘skill, cleverness, art’ is not attested in that meaning (see Fritzner: list), and therefore the two nouns are not in apposition.
Máríu ‘to Mary’
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María (noun f.): Mary
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
Kristi ‘Christ’
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Kristr (noun m.; °-s/-, dat. -i; -ar): Christ
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