Anon (Ágr) 1I
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísa from Ágrip af Nóregskonunga sǫgum 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1072.
notes
[1] æ ‘always’: ‘Ęa’ in the ms. appears to be a scribal error.
standa ‘are turned’
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standa (verb): stand
mér ‘my’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
augu ‘eyes’
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auga (noun n.; °auga; augu/augun, gen. augna): eye
of ‘across’
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3. of (prep.): around, from; too
notes
[2] of eld ‘across the fire’: Of eld is written clearly as two words in the ms., and the line is a Type B with the prep. of ‘across’ in anacrusis. Kock (NN §2761) initially took of eld as a cpd adj. ófeld ‘unwavering’ (lit. ‘not-turned-down’) qualifying augu (n. nom. pl.) ‘eyes’ (l. 1), hence ‘always my unwavering eyes are turned towards Gráfeldr’. Kuhn (1936b, 159) pointed out that this construction involves illicit alliteration on the rhyming syllables, in response to which Kock (NN §2902G; Skald) created another cpd adj. of-eld ‘exceedingly kindled’ or ‘burning’. Aside from the fact that the cpd is unattested, this reading is metrically impossible: the two syllables in the cpd would resolve on the first lift, creating a pentasyllabic line (see Kuhn 1937, 51-2).
eld ‘the fire’
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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire
notes
[2] of eld ‘across the fire’: Of eld is written clearly as two words in the ms., and the line is a Type B with the prep. of ‘across’ in anacrusis. Kock (NN §2761) initially took of eld as a cpd adj. ófeld ‘unwavering’ (lit. ‘not-turned-down’) qualifying augu (n. nom. pl.) ‘eyes’ (l. 1), hence ‘always my unwavering eyes are turned towards Gráfeldr’. Kuhn (1936b, 159) pointed out that this construction involves illicit alliteration on the rhyming syllables, in response to which Kock (NN §2902G; Skald) created another cpd adj. of-eld ‘exceedingly kindled’ or ‘burning’. Aside from the fact that the cpd is unattested, this reading is metrically impossible: the two syllables in the cpd would resolve on the first lift, creating a pentasyllabic line (see Kuhn 1937, 51-2).
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
notes
[2] til Gráfeldar ‘to Gráfeldr (“Grey-cloak”)’: Haraldr Eiríksson, the son of Eiríkr blóðøx ‘Blood-axe’ Eiríksson and Gunnhildr, got this nickname because he wore a grey cloak of sheepskin given to him by Icelandic merchants (see ÍF 26, 211-12 and Note to Anon Nkt 16/5II; for Haraldr’s career see ‘Ruler biographies’ in Introduction to this volume.
Gráfeldar ‘Gráfeldr (‘Grey-cloak’)’
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gráfeldr (noun m.): Grey-cloak
notes
[2] til Gráfeldar ‘to Gráfeldr (“Grey-cloak”)’: Haraldr Eiríksson, the son of Eiríkr blóðøx ‘Blood-axe’ Eiríksson and Gunnhildr, got this nickname because he wore a grey cloak of sheepskin given to him by Icelandic merchants (see ÍF 26, 211-12 and Note to Anon Nkt 16/5II; for Haraldr’s career see ‘Ruler biographies’ in Introduction to this volume.
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