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Anon (TGT) 29III

Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 29’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 557.

Anonymous LausavísurStanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise
282930

text and translation

Einstigi mér heinar.

{Einstigi heinar} … mér.
 
‘The narrow path of the hone [SWORD] … to me.

notes and context

In this section of TGT, metaphor (metaphora) is discussed using kennings as the primary examples. This particular citation illustrates a transfer of meaning from one inanimate object to another (TGT 1927, 76): Af óandligum hlut til óandligs verðr metaphora, sem þá er skip er kallat skíð sævar eða vatna, en sverð beðr eða gata heinar ‘Metaphor comes from the transfer of one inanimate object to another, as when a ship is called ski of the sea or lakes, and a sword bed or path of the hone’.

The metaphor here is the kenning einstigi heinar ‘narrow path of the hone [SWORD]’ (hones were used for sharpening swords). This type of kenning for ‘sword’ is attested elsewhere (Meissner 155). For Viking-Age hones or whetstones, see Note to Þjóð Haustl 20/3-4.

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Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], C. Vers om ubestemmelige personer og begivenheder 12: AI, 598, BI, 598, Skald I, 291; SnE 1818, 328, SnE 1848, 194, SnE 1848-87, II, 162-3, TGT 1884, 28, 104, 216-17, TGT 1927, 76, 105.

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