Anon (SnE) 7III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 7’ 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.
Svá ‘as’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
gegn ‘The capable one’
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1. gegn (adj.; °compar. -ri, superl. -astr/-str): reliable
[1] skaut gegn: ‘[…]n’ U; gegn: gegnt C
í ‘’
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í (prep.): in, into
kennings
steinfarinn garð barða‘the painted fence of the ship ’
= SHIELD
the painted fence of the ship → SHIELD
stein ‘the painted’
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steinn (noun m.; °steins; steinar): stone, colour < steinfarinn (adj./verb p.p.)
[2] garð stein‑: ‘[…]nn’ U
kennings
steinfarinn garð barða‘the painted fence of the ship ’
= SHIELD
the painted fence of the ship → SHIELD
notes
[2] steinfarinn ‘painted’: For painted and adorned shields, see Falk (1914b, 129-32, 145-8) as well as Bragi Rdr, Þjóð Haustl and Introductions there. The second element of the cpd, farinn lit. ‘of appearance’, is the p. p. of fara ‘go’ (see Heggstad et al. 2008: fara C. farinn 4).
farinn ‘’
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-farinn (adj.) < steinfarinn (adj./verb p.p.)
kennings
steinfarinn garð barða‘the painted fence of the ship ’
= SHIELD
the painted fence of the ship → SHIELD
notes
[2] steinfarinn ‘painted’: For painted and adorned shields, see Falk (1914b, 129-32, 145-8) as well as Bragi Rdr, Þjóð Haustl and Introductions there. The second element of the cpd, farinn lit. ‘of appearance’, is the p. p. of fara ‘go’ (see Heggstad et al. 2008: fara C. farinn 4).
barða ‘of the ship’
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barð (noun n.): prow, stern (of a ship)
kennings
steinfarinn garð barða‘the painted fence of the ship ’
= SHIELD
the painted fence of the ship → SHIELD
notes
[2] barða (m. gen. sg.) ‘of the ship’: For this type of ship, see Þul Skipa 3/3. Barða could also be the gen. pl. of barð ‘prow’, but the present translation was chosen because of the prose commentary (garðr skips ‘fence of the ship’; see Context above).
sá ‘that’
kennings
sá geira gnýstœrir‘din-increaser of spears’
= WARRIOR
the din of spears → BATTLE
that increaser of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
vas ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
kennings
sá geira gnýstœrir‘din-increaser of spears’
= WARRIOR
the din of spears → BATTLE
that increaser of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
kennings
sá geira gnýstœrir‘din-increaser of spears’
= WARRIOR
the din of spears → BATTLE
that increaser of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
stœrir ‘increaser’
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stœrir (noun m.): increaser < gnýstœrir (noun m.)
kennings
sá geira gnýstœrir‘din-increaser of spears’
= WARRIOR
the din of spears → BATTLE
that increaser of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
geira ‘of spears’
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geirr (noun m.): spear
kennings
sá geira gnýstœrir‘din-increaser of spears’
= WARRIOR
the din of spears → BATTLE
that increaser of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
geira ‘of spears’
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geirr (noun m.): spear
kennings
sá geira gnýstœrir‘din-increaser of spears’
= WARRIOR
the din of spears → BATTLE
that increaser of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
notes
[4] hæfr ‘able’: So W, U, A, and adopted in Skj B and Skald. This is the reading of the majority of the ms. witnesses, and the vowel is secured by internal rhyme (for the etymology of hæfr, see AEW: hæfr); cf. also the semantically parallel adj. gegn ‘the capable one’ (l. 1). SnE 1848-87 and SnE 1998 retain the R, C reading æfr ‘furious’, which is certainly possible, although the etymological stem vowel in that adj. is œ rather than æ (see AEW: œfr).
sem ‘though’
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sem (conj.): as, which
næfrar ‘birch-bark’
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1. næfr (noun f.; °-ar; -ar/-ir(DN III (1322) 128²⁴)): roof-shingle
[4] næfrar: ‘[…]’ U
notes
[4] næfrar (f. pl.) ‘birch-bark’: The noun næfr ‘birch-bark’ is usually attested in the pl. form.
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The helmingr is cited as one of many illustrations of kennings for ‘shield’ (SnE 1998, I, 69): Garðr skips, sem hér er ‘The fence of the ship, as here’.
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