Anon (SnE) 2III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 2’ 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.
Finnur Jónsson (Skj) assigns these anonymous fragments (Anon (SnE) 2-3), cited in Skm (SnE), to the tenth century, but that dating cannot be confirmed. They are preserved in mss R (main ms.), Tˣ, W, U, A and C.
Aura stendr fyr órum
eik fagrbúin leiki.
{Fagrbúin eik aura} stendr fyr leiki órum.
{The beautifully dressed oak of riches} [WOMAN] prevents our [my] pleasure.
Mss: R(33r), Tˣ(34v), W(76), U(32r), A(10v), C(4v) (SnE)
Readings: [1] Aura: ‘ayrvm’ W; fyr: ‘[…]’ A [2] fagr‑: fǫgr U, C; leiki: leika C
Editions: Skj AI, 185, Skj BI, 175, Skald I, 93; SnE 1848-87, I, 412-13, II, 325, 436, 584, III, 74, SnE 1931, 147, SnE 1998, I, 64.
Context: This is one of several stanzas that illustrate kennings for ‘woman’ in which the base-word (f.) is a kind of tree, here, eik ‘oak’.
Notes: [1, 2] stendr fyr leiki órum ‘prevents our [my] pleasure’: The verb and prep. standa fyr ‘prevent, stand in the way of’ (or a verb with similar meaning) coupled with the object leiki ‘pleasure’ is a commontype in laments about unreciprocated love. Leikr ‘pleasure’ (lit. ‘sport’) has clear sexual overtones here (see, e.g., Notes to Anon Stríðk [All], Anon (LaufE) 1/1, 4 and Ill Lv [All]). Finnur Jónsson (in Skj) provides the heading Om kærlighedssorg ‘About lovesickness’.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- 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.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 1 May 2024)
- Margaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Stríðkeravísur’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 628. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1042> (accessed 1 May 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Illugi bryndœlaskáld, Lausavísa’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 266. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1276> (accessed 1 May 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 2’ 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.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Laufás Edda 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 637.
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