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Anon (SnE) 5III

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 516.

Anonymous LausavísurStanzas from Snorra Edda
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introduction

The two anonymous couplets (Anon (SnE) 5-6) edited here are transmitted in mss R (main ms.), , W, U, A and C of Skm (SnE), and Anon (SnE) 6 is also preserved in the Y redaction of LaufE (mss 2368ˣ(122) and 743ˣ(92v)) as well as in RE 1665(Ji3). Neither redaction has been considered in the present edn. In Skj Finnur Jónsson groups the stanzas under Om kampe og mod ‘About battles and bravery’ and dates them to the tenth century. No date can be assigned to the first couplet based on linguistic and metrical criteria; for the second, see Notes to st. 6/1 below.

text and translation

Odda gnýs við œsi
oddnets þinul setja.

Setja {þinul {oddnets}} við {œsi {gnýs odda}}.
 
‘Place the rope-edging of the point-net [SHIELD > SHIELD-RIM] against the inciter of the din of points [BATTLE > WARRIOR].

notes and context

The couplet is cited as one of several examples of kennings for ‘battle’ (gnýr odda ‘din of points’).

This must be the last couplet of a helmingr (ll. 3-4 or 7-8), and the subject of the clause as well as the auxiliary going with the inf. setja ‘place’ (l. 2) must have been contained in the no-longer extant first couplet.

readings

sources

Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [X], III. B. Om kampe og mod 1: AI, 184, BI, 173, Skald I, 93; SnE 1848-87, I, 420-1, II, 327, 438, 587, III, 78, SnE 1931, 149, SnE 1998, I, 67.

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