Anon (TGT) 11III
Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 11’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 545.
Skíð ‘The ski’
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skíð (noun n.; °; -): ski
kennings
Skíð flóðs‘The ski of the sea ’
= SHIP
The ski of the sea → SHIP
gekk ‘went’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
notes
[1] gekk framm ‘went forward’: Óláfr states that here cacemphaton occurs because the verb ganga ‘walk’ is used for the action of a ship (TGT 1927, 55): Hér er kallat at skíð gangi, en þat er eiginligt mǫnnum eða kvikendum ‘Here it is said that the ski walks, but that is proper to people or living beings’. This might suggest that the verb-adv. collocation should be translated ‘walked forward’, but the expression ganga fram(m) can also mean simply ‘proceed, advance’.
framm ‘forward’
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fram (adv.): out, forth, forwards, away
notes
[1] gekk framm ‘went forward’: Óláfr states that here cacemphaton occurs because the verb ganga ‘walk’ is used for the action of a ship (TGT 1927, 55): Hér er kallat at skíð gangi, en þat er eiginligt mǫnnum eða kvikendum ‘Here it is said that the ski walks, but that is proper to people or living beings’. This might suggest that the verb-adv. collocation should be translated ‘walked forward’, but the expression ganga fram(m) can also mean simply ‘proceed, advance’.
at ‘at’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
flœði ‘high tide’
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flœðr (noun f.): high tide; ocean
notes
[1] flœði ‘high tide’: According to CVC: flœðr this word is used in Western Iceland instead of flóð, used elsewhere.
flóðs ‘of the sea’
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2. flóð (noun n.): flood
kennings
Skíð flóðs‘The ski of the sea ’
= SHIP
The ski of the sea → SHIP
í ‘in ’
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í (prep.): in, into
hreggi ‘storm’
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hregg (noun n.): storm
óðu ‘a violent’
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2. óðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): raging, furious
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Cited as a third example of cacemphaton (‘cacenphaton’), an ill-sounding expression (TGT 1927, 55): Þat er ok kallat cacenphaton, ef maðr eignar óviðrkvæmiliga ǫðrum hlut þat er annarr á ‘It is also called cacemphaton if one unsuitably gives an attribute to a thing that [properly] belongs to another’.
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