Anon (SnE) 3III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 514.
Ógnrakkr, skalat okkur,
álmr dynskúrar málma,
(svá bauð lind) í landi
(líns) hugrekki dvína.
{Ógnrakkr álmr {dynskúrar málma}}, hugrekki okkur skalat dvína í landi; svá bauð {lind líns}.
{Battle-brave elm {of the din-shower of weapons}} [BATTLE > WARRIOR], our boldness of heart must not diminish in the land; thus {the linden of linen} [WOMAN] commanded.
Mss: R(33r), Tˣ(34v), W(76), U(32r), A(10v), C(4v) (SnE)
Readings: [1] Ógn‑: ‘Ong’ U; ‑rakkr: so Tˣ, W, A, C, ‑rakr R, ‑rekkr U; skalat: skal at Tˣ, C, ‘s[…]a’ U [2] málma: malmi Tˣ [4] líns: so all others, linns R; dvína: dvínar U
Editions: Skj AI, 184, Skj BI, 174, Skald I, 93, NN §1836; SnE 1848-87, I, 412-13, II, 325, 436, 585, III, 74, SnE 1931, 147, SnE 1998, I, 64.
Context: As st. 2 above. The tree-name that functions as the base-word in the woman-kenning is lind ‘linden’.
Notes: [3] í landi ‘in the land’: Kock (NN §1836) argues that this prepositional phrase ought to belong to the second rather than to the first clause (‘thus the linden of linen [WOMAN] in the land commanded’), and that ‘in the land’ means ‘at home’. That word order is entirely possible, although land does not appear to be attested in this meaning (see Fritzner: land). SnE 1848-87, I, offers in patria degens ‘living in the homeland’. The present edn follows Skj B and SnE 1998.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
- SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
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