Matthew Townend (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 17’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 529.
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allvaldr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): mighty ruler
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3. kanna (verb): know, be able
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allr (adj.): all
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3. austr (adv.; °compar. -ar, superl. -ast): east, in the east
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
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2. suðr (adv.): south, in the south
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flaust (noun n.): ship
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2. Sveinn (noun m.): Sveinn
[2] sonr Sveins ‘Sveinn’s son [= Knútr]’: See Introduction above, as well as Knútr Sveinsson’s Biography in Introduction to SkP I.
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
[3] es sonr (‘er sonr’): ok suðr C
[2] sonr Sveins ‘Sveinn’s son [= Knútr]’: See Introduction above, as well as Knútr Sveinsson’s Biography in Introduction to SkP I.
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
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reyna (verb): test, try, experience
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
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betri (adj. comp.; °superl. beztr/baztr; pos. góðr adj.): better, best
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This stanza is quoted in Skm to illustrate the use of allvaldr as a nafn ókent ‘non-periphrastic term’ for ‘man’, and introduced with svá sem hér er kveðit ‘as is said here’.
[1]: This line has aðalhending (all : all) rather than the expected skothending.
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