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Anon (TGT) 3III

Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 539.

Anonymous LausavísurStanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise
234

Lofðungr gekk at Lakkar
— laut herr í gras — snerru.

Lofðungr gekk at {snerru Lakkar}; herr laut í gras.

The prince went to {the onslaught of Hlǫkk <valkyrie>} [BATTLE]; the army fell in the grass.

Mss: A(4r), B(2v), W(102) (TGT)

Readings: [1] Lofðungr: Lofðung W    [2] laut: land W;    gras snerru: gram snerru B, ‘grasnerro’ W

Editions: Skj AI, 599, Skj BI, 599, Skald I, 292; SnE 1818, 312, SnE 1848, 183, SnE 1848-87, II, 104-5, 407, 510, III, 139, TGT 1884, 15, 68, 177, TGT 1927, 46, 93.

Context: Cited as an example of barbarismus involving the removal of aspiration (aftekning áblásningar), i.e. the aspirated [h] (see Note to l. 1 below).

Notes: [1] Lakkar ‘of Hlǫkk <valkyrie>’: The removal of aspiration occurs in the substitution of Lakkar for Hlakkar (Hlǫkk, a valkyrie-name) to produce correct alliteration (TGT 1927, 46): Hér er lakkar sett fyrir hlakkar at kveðandi haldiz ‘Here Lakkar is used instead of Hlakkar so that the verse-form is preserved’, i.e. to achieve alliteration. Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884, 177) suggests a Norwegian pronunciation, which Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 93) uses to date the couplet to C12th. Initial h- was lost in Norwegian in the C12th in certain phonetic environments (cf. Seip 1955, 76), but the couplet may have been composed later than that.

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. Seip, Didrik Arup. 1955. Norsk språkhistorie til omkring 1370. 2nd edn. Oslo: Aschehoug.
  7. 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.
  8. SnE 1818 = Rask, Rasmus Kristian, ed. 1818a. Snorra Edda ásamt Skáldu og þarmeð fylgjandi ritgjörðum. Stockholm: Elmen.
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