Anon (TGT) 14III
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.
s ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
af ‘away from’
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af (prep.): from
Íslandi ‘Iceland’
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Ísland (noun n.): [Iceland, ice-land]
arði ‘ploughed’
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erja (verb; °arði): to plough
barði ‘with the prow’
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barð (noun n.): prow, stern (of a ship)
notes
[1] barði (dat. sg.) ‘with the prow’: Barð was frequently used to refer to a ship pars pro toto (cf. Jesch 2001a, 148-50). The metaphor of ploughing here, however, is more suggestive of the prow cutting through the sea.
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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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