Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 14’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 547.
Sás af Íslandi
arði barði.
Sás arði barði af Íslandi.
‘The one who ploughed [the sea] with the prow away from Iceland.’
Cited as a second example of ellipsis (‘eclipsis’), i.e. the omission of a word. In this case, the missing word is a kenning or term for ‘sea’ (TGT 1927, 58): Hér skortir sjóvar nafn til fullrar merkingar ‘Here a name for sea is missing for the full meaning’.
Line 1 is fornyrðislag and l. 2 is inn grœnlenzki háttr ‘the verse-form from Greenland’ (SnSt Ht 71). — This fragment has strong echoes in the inscription Run Sö 65VI (Djulefors): han : austarla : arþi : barþi ‘He ploughed with the prow in the East’.
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