Anon (SnE) 14III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 14’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 526.
Boði ‘A wave’
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boði (noun m.; °-a; -ar): messenger, breaker
fell ‘crashed’
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falla (verb): fall
notes
[1] of mik ‘around me’: So Tˣ, B and A (the latter has the later form um rather than of). Mss R and C have the prep. á ‘on’, which is also possible (and adopted in SnE 1848-87 and SnE 1998).
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[1] of mik ‘around me’: So Tˣ, B and A (the latter has the later form um rather than of). Mss R and C have the prep. á ‘on’, which is also possible (and adopted in SnE 1848-87 and SnE 1998).
bauð ‘invited’
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bjóða (verb; °býðr; bauð, buðu; boðinn (buð- Thom¹ 5²n.)): offer, order, invite
heim ‘home’
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heim (adv.): home, back
með ‘’
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með (prep.): with
sér ‘’
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sik (pron.; °gen. sín, dat. sér): (refl. pron.)
notes
[2] geimi ‘the sea’: Lit. ‘extensive one’. This heiti is also recorded in Þul Sjóvar 1/5.
notes
[3] þák eigi ‘I did not accept’: So Tˣ (and adopted in earlier eds). Mss R and C have þá er ‘when’, which cannot be construed to make any sense in this context.
eigi ‘did not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
notes
[3] þák eigi ‘I did not accept’: So Tˣ (and adopted in earlier eds). Mss R and C have þá er ‘when’, which cannot be construed to make any sense in this context.
lǫð ‘the hospitality’
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1. lǫð (noun f.): [hospitality]
lœgis ‘of the ocean’
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lœgir (noun m.): sea
[3] lœgis (‘lo᷎gis’): so Tˣ, ‘leygis’ R, ‘læðis’ A
notes
[3] lœgis ‘of the ocean’: The sea-heiti lœgir lit. ‘calm one’ is also given in Þul Sjóvar 1/3.
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In Skm the three lines illustrate a heiti for ‘wave’ (boði).
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