Anon (SnE) 6III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 517.
Hnigu ‘sank down’
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hníga (verb): sink, fall
notes
[1, 2] hnigu und hramma arnar ‘sank down beneath the claws of the eagle’: Meaning that they died in battle.
fjandr ‘The enemies’
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fjándi (noun m.; °-a; fjándr/fjándar/fjándir): enemy, devil
notes
[1] fjandr ‘the enemies’: The metre shows that this word (earlier disyllabic fíandr) is monosyllabic here (no resolution is possible in this metrical position), which means that the couplet cannot be earlier than c. 1200 (see ANG §133a and Introduction to Anon (SnE) 5-6 above).
at ‘at’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
glym ‘the din’
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glymr (noun m.): noise
kennings
glym Gǫndlar.‘the din of Gǫndul. ’
= BATTLE
the din of Gǫndul. → BATTLE
kennings
glym Gǫndlar.‘the din of Gǫndul. ’
= BATTLE
the din of Gǫndul. → BATTLE
grams ‘of the ruler’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
und ‘beneath’
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath
notes
[1, 2] hnigu und hramma arnar ‘sank down beneath the claws of the eagle’: Meaning that they died in battle.
arnar ‘of the eagle’
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1. ǫrn (noun m.; °arnar, dat. erni; ernir, acc. ǫrnu): eagle
notes
[1, 2] hnigu und hramma arnar ‘sank down beneath the claws of the eagle’: Meaning that they died in battle.
notes
[1, 2] hnigu und hramma arnar ‘sank down beneath the claws of the eagle’: Meaning that they died in battle.
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As st. 5 above. The battle-kenning here is glymr Gǫndlar ‘the din of Gǫndul <valkyrie>’.
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