Anon (TGT) 7III
Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 542.
Hér ‘here’
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hér (adv.): here
fregna ‘hear of’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
hyggnir ‘The thoughtful’
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hygginn (adj.; °comp. -ari, superl. -astr): intelligent
kennings
Hyggnir draugar brimis‘The thoughtful trees of the sword ’
= WARRIORS
The thoughtful trees of the sword → WARRIORS
hjǫr ‘weapon’
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hjǫrr (noun m.): sword < hjǫrflaug (noun f.)
kennings
hjǫrflaug‘weapon-flight ’
= BATTLE
weapon-flight → BATTLE
kennings
hjǫrflaug‘weapon-flight ’
= BATTLE
weapon-flight → BATTLE
brims ‘of the surf’
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brim (noun n.): surf
kennings
Hyggnir draugar brimis‘The thoughtful trees of the sword ’
= WARRIORS
The thoughtful trees of the sword → WARRIORS
notes
[2] brimis ‘of the sword’: The W reading brims ‘of the surf’ is preferred in the early SnE eds, but creates a hypometric line and is inferior in sense (cf. Nj 1875-8, II, 308). For the sword-heiti brimir, see Note to Þul Sverða 5/6.
draugar ‘trees’
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2. draugr (noun m.): ghost
kennings
Hyggnir draugar brimis‘The thoughtful trees of the sword ’
= WARRIORS
The thoughtful trees of the sword → WARRIORS
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Cited as a second example of collisiones involving the juxtaposition of harsh consonants (following Anon (TGT) 6).
The collisiones here possibly occurs in the consonants -g br- in hjǫrflaug brimis ‘weapon-flight … of the sword’. SnE 1848-87, II, 110 suggests brims draugar, possibly the cluster -ms dr- (although TGT 1927, 49 n. interprets this as br- … dr-). If a broader sense of snarpr as ‘harsh-sounding’ is used (see Context to st. 6), either consonant cluster could be meant. Possible candidates are also the clusters ‑r fr- (l. 1) and ‑rfl- (l. 2), which are closer to the examples provided by Sedulius Scottus (see st. 6, Note to [All]).
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