Anon (HSig) 7II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 820-1.
Stór ‘Large’
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stórr (adj.): large, great
taka ‘begin’
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2. taka (verb): take
fjǫll ‘mountains’
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1. fjall (noun n.): mountain
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
ferr ‘spreads’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
sótt ‘pestilence’
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sótt (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): illness
of ‘throughout’
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3. of (prep.): around, from; too
kyn ‘kind’
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1. kyn (noun n.; °-s; -): kin
dróttar ‘man’
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1. drótt (noun f.): troop
eyðisk ‘is destroyed’
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2. eyða (verb; °-dd-): destroy
friðr ‘peace’
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friðr (noun m.): peace
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
fœðisk ‘is born’
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2. fœða (verb): to feed, give food to, bring up, bear, give birth to
fjandhugr ‘enmity’
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fjándhugr (noun m.): [enmity]
landa ‘nations’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
Vesa ‘be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
munk ‘I shall’
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munu (verb): will, must
yðr ‘To you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
sem ‘as’
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sem (conj.): as, which
ǫðrum ‘to other’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
angrljóðasǫm ‘filled with sorrowful songs’
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angrljóðasamr (adj.): filled with sorrowful songs
þjóðum ‘people’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
ylgr ‘the she-wolf’
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ylgr (noun f.; °acc. -i): she-wolf
nemr ‘begins’
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1. nema (verb): to take
suðr ‘in the south’
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2. suðr (adv.): south, in the south
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
svelgja ‘swallow’
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1. svelgja (verb): swallow
sveita ‘blood’
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sveiti (noun m.; °-a): blood
Urðr ‘as the Urðr’
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Urðr (noun f.): [as Urðr, Urðr]
of ‘’
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4. of (particle): (before verb)
heitin ‘known’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
sveita ‘of blood’
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sveiti (noun m.; °-a): blood
[9] sveita Urðr of heitin: abbrev. as ‘s. vr. vm h.’ Hb
Urðr ‘as the Urðr’
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Urðr (noun f.): [as Urðr, Urðr]
[9] sveita Urðr of heitin: abbrev. as ‘s. vr. vm h.’ Hb
of ‘’
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4. of (particle): (before verb)
[9] sveita Urðr of heitin: abbrev. as ‘s. vr. vm h.’ Hb
heitin ‘be known’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
[9] sveita Urðr of heitin: abbrev. as ‘s. vr. vm h.’ Hb
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Large mountains begin to fall; pestilence spreads throughout mankind; peace is destroyed, and enmity is born between nations. To you, as to other people, I shall be known as the Urðr <norn> filled with sorrowful songs; the she-wolf begins to swallow blood in the south; be known as the Urðr <norn> of blood.
Cited in Hb without intervening prose after Anon (HSig) 6 above.
[1-4]: The first helmingr recalls the Apocalypse (cf., e.g. Rev. VI.14, VIII.11, IX.15-18) and is out of keeping with the different images of doom presented in Anon (HSig) 6 and 8. — [9]: The repetition of the last l. is characteristic of prophetic sts, and such repetitions are a feature of the metre galdralag ‘incantation metre’ (SnSt Ht 101III; SnE 1999, 39, 74). In this particular case, the l. is syntactically incomplete (sveita ‘blood’ and Urðr of heitin ‘known as the Urðr’ belong to two different clauses in l. 8), but sveita ‘blood’ could be construed as a gen. qualifying Urðr (‘the Urðr of blood’). Urðr was one of the norns of fate in ON mythology (see SnE 2005, 18).
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