Anon Brúðv 18VII
Valgerður Erna Þorvaldsdóttir (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Brúðkaupsvísur 18’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 541-2.
Vingun ‘The friendship’
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vingun (noun f.; °-anar/-unar): [friendship]
muna ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
vera ‘not last’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
leingr ‘[any] longer’
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langr (adj.; °compar. lengri, superl. lengstr): long
veld ‘cause’
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valda (verb): cause
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
eigi ‘do not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
að ‘’
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4. at (conj.): that
heldr ‘either’
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heldr (adv.): rather
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
ástúð ‘affection’
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ásthúð (noun f.; °-ar): love, affection
okkr ‘for us’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
svá ‘like that’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
mun ‘it will’
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munu (verb): will, must
fara ‘turn out’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
loks ‘in the end’
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loks (adv.): finally
nema ‘unless’
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2. nema (conj.): unless
eina ‘that one’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
auð ‘gold’
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1. auðr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-): wealth < Auðrán (noun f.)
kennings
auð-Rán‘gold-Rán ’
= WOMAN
gold-Rán → WOMAN
notes
[5] auð Rán ‘gold-Rán’: This is a typical woman-kenning, here referring to Mary (if the first interpretation option is chosen).
Rán ‘Rán’
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Rán (noun f.): Rán < Auðrán (noun f.)
kennings
auð-Rán‘gold-Rán ’
= WOMAN
gold-Rán → WOMAN
notes
[5] auð Rán ‘gold-Rán’: This is a typical woman-kenning, here referring to Mary (if the first interpretation option is chosen).
aðra ‘other’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
látir ‘you forsake’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
í ‘’
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í (prep.): in, into
stað ‘here’
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1. staðr (noun m.; °-ar/-s; -ir): place
hristir ‘shaker’
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hristir (noun m.): shaker
kennings
hristir hnossa,‘shaker of treasures, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
shaker of treasures, → GENEROUS MAN
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
hafið ‘you have’
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hafa (verb): have
fest ‘betrothed yourself’
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2. festa (verb): fasten, betrothe, promise
hnossa ‘of treasures’
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1. hnoss (noun f.; °; -ir): treasure
kennings
hristir hnossa,‘shaker of treasures, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
shaker of treasures, → GENEROUS MAN
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
munið ‘remember’
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1. muna (verb): remember
oss ‘us [me]’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
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‘Vingun muna vera leingr |
‘The friendship will not last [any] longer and affection will come to nothing; I do not cause it either; in the end it will turn out like that for us, unless you forsake that one other gold-Rán <goddess> [WOMAN] here and now, to whom you have betrothed yourself, shaker of treasures [GENEROUS MAN], and remember us [me].
This st. is a little difficult to understand, although the general thrust of it is clear: Mary is telling the young man to choose her over his human betrothed, if he wants to continue their relationship. Presumably, vingun ‘friendship’ (l. 1) refers to the friendship between the young man and Mary, not to his relationship with his human fiancée. — [5-8]: It is possible to intepret this helmingr in two different ways, the first way as presented in the translation above, and the second as here: ‘nema látir eina aðra auð-Rán, þás nú hafit fest, hristir hnossa, en í stað munit oss’ ‘“unless you leave alone another gold-Rán <goddess> [WOMAN], to whom you have betrothed yourself, shaker of treasures [MAN], and instead remember us [me]”’.
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