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Anon (TGT) 9III

Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 543.

Anonymous LausavísurStanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise
8910

Rann hræddari hranna
hyrbrjótr frá styr ljótum.

{Hræddari {hranna hyr}brjótr} rann frá ljótum styr.

{The more fearful breaker {of the fire of the waves}} [(lit. ‘fire-breaker of the waves’) GOLD > GENEROUS MAN] ran from the grim battle.

Mss: A(4v), W(103) (TGT)

Editions: Skj AI, 598, Skj BI, 598, Skald I, 292; SnE 1818, 315, SnE 1848, 185, SnE 1848-87, II, 116-17, 410, III, 141, TGT 1884, 17, 76, 184, TGT 1927, 52, 95.

Context: Cited as an example of soloecismus involving comparison; the comparative form (samjafnanligt nafnhræddari ‘more fearful’ is used instead of the positive form (settligu nafnihræddr ‘fearful’.

Notes: [All]: This fragment expresses an idea opposite to that of Anon (TGT) 8 and the two are probably in deliberate contrast; cf. Anon (TGT) 8/1 hraustan ‘bravely’ and hræddari ‘more fearful’ (l. 1).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
  3. 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.
  4. SnE 1848 = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1848. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, eða Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál og Háttatal. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja landsins.
  5. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  6. TGT 1927 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1927b. Óláfr Þórðarson: Málhljóða- og málskrúðsrit. Grammatisk-retorisk afhandling. Det kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske meddelelser 13, 2. Copenhagen: Høst.
  7. SnE 1818 = Rask, Rasmus Kristian, ed. 1818a. Snorra Edda ásamt Skáldu og þarmeð fylgjandi ritgjörðum. Stockholm: Elmen.
  8. Internal references
  9. Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 8’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 543.
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