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.
Odda ‘of points’
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oddr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): point of weapon
kennings
œsi gnýs odda.‘the inciter of the din of points. ’
= WARRIOR
the din of points. → BATTLE
the inciter of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
notes
[1, 2] odda; odd- ‘of points; of the point-’: The sharpened points of weapons, whether sword-points, spear-points or arrow-points.
Odda ‘of points’
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oddr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): point of weapon
kennings
œsi gnýs odda.‘the inciter of the din of points. ’
= WARRIOR
the din of points. → BATTLE
the inciter of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
notes
[1, 2] odda; odd- ‘of points; of the point-’: The sharpened points of weapons, whether sword-points, spear-points or arrow-points.
kennings
œsi gnýs odda.‘the inciter of the din of points. ’
= WARRIOR
the din of points. → BATTLE
the inciter of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
kennings
œsi gnýs odda.‘the inciter of the din of points. ’
= WARRIOR
the din of points. → BATTLE
the inciter of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
við ‘against’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
kennings
œsi gnýs odda.‘the inciter of the din of points. ’
= WARRIOR
the din of points. → BATTLE
the inciter of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
odd ‘of the point’
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oddr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): point of weapon < oddnet (noun n.)
kennings
þinul oddnets‘the rope-edging of the point-net ’
= SHIELD-RIM
the point-net → SHIELD
the rope-edging of the SHIELD → SHIELD-RIM
notes
[1, 2] odda; odd- ‘of points; of the point-’: The sharpened points of weapons, whether sword-points, spear-points or arrow-points. — [2] oddnets ‘of the point-net [SHIELD]’: So U. The R, Tˣ, W, A, C reading, nes(s) ‘promontory, of the promontory’, makes no sense in the context and leaves the line without internal rhyme (-et- : -et-).
odd ‘of the point’
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oddr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): point of weapon < oddnet (noun n.)
kennings
þinul oddnets‘the rope-edging of the point-net ’
= SHIELD-RIM
the point-net → SHIELD
the rope-edging of the SHIELD → SHIELD-RIM
notes
[1, 2] odda; odd- ‘of points; of the point-’: The sharpened points of weapons, whether sword-points, spear-points or arrow-points. — [2] oddnets ‘of the point-net [SHIELD]’: So U. The R, Tˣ, W, A, C reading, nes(s) ‘promontory, of the promontory’, makes no sense in the context and leaves the line without internal rhyme (-et- : -et-).
odd ‘of the point’
(not checked:)
oddr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): point of weapon < oddnet (noun n.)
kennings
þinul oddnets‘the rope-edging of the point-net ’
= SHIELD-RIM
the point-net → SHIELD
the rope-edging of the SHIELD → SHIELD-RIM
notes
[1, 2] odda; odd- ‘of points; of the point-’: The sharpened points of weapons, whether sword-points, spear-points or arrow-points. — [2] oddnets ‘of the point-net [SHIELD]’: So U. The R, Tˣ, W, A, C reading, nes(s) ‘promontory, of the promontory’, makes no sense in the context and leaves the line without internal rhyme (-et- : -et-).
odd ‘of the point’
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oddr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): point of weapon < oddnet (noun n.)
kennings
þinul oddnets‘the rope-edging of the point-net ’
= SHIELD-RIM
the point-net → SHIELD
the rope-edging of the SHIELD → SHIELD-RIM
notes
[1, 2] odda; odd- ‘of points; of the point-’: The sharpened points of weapons, whether sword-points, spear-points or arrow-points. — [2] oddnets ‘of the point-net [SHIELD]’: So U. The R, Tˣ, W, A, C reading, nes(s) ‘promontory, of the promontory’, makes no sense in the context and leaves the line without internal rhyme (-et- : -et-).
nets ‘net’
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net (noun n.; °; -, gen. netja): net < oddnet (noun n.)
[2] ‑nets: so U, ‑nes R, Tˣ, W, ‑ness C
kennings
þinul oddnets‘the rope-edging of the point-net ’
= SHIELD-RIM
the point-net → SHIELD
the rope-edging of the SHIELD → SHIELD-RIM
notes
[2] oddnets ‘of the point-net [SHIELD]’: So U. The R, Tˣ, W, A, C reading, nes(s) ‘promontory, of the promontory’, makes no sense in the context and leaves the line without internal rhyme (-et- : -et-).
nets ‘net’
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net (noun n.; °; -, gen. netja): net < oddnet (noun n.)
[2] ‑nets: so U, ‑nes R, Tˣ, W, ‑ness C
kennings
þinul oddnets‘the rope-edging of the point-net ’
= SHIELD-RIM
the point-net → SHIELD
the rope-edging of the SHIELD → SHIELD-RIM
notes
[2] oddnets ‘of the point-net [SHIELD]’: So U. The R, Tˣ, W, A, C reading, nes(s) ‘promontory, of the promontory’, makes no sense in the context and leaves the line without internal rhyme (-et- : -et-).
þinul ‘the rope-edging’
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þinull (noun m.): [cord, rope-edging]
kennings
þinul oddnets‘the rope-edging of the point-net ’
= SHIELD-RIM
the point-net → SHIELD
the rope-edging of the SHIELD → SHIELD-RIM
notes
[2] þinul ‘the rope-edging’: ON þinull (ModNorw. tenel) is the edging on a sail or net, or a bolt-rope on a ship. The choice of this particular base-word was most likely conscious and caused by the base-word net ‘net’ in the shield-kenning.
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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.
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