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Anon (TGT) 34III

Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 34’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 560.

Anonymous LausavísurStanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise
333435

text and translation

Í herská
hilmis ríki.

Í herská ríki hilmis.
 
‘In the ruler’s war-torn realm.

notes and context

Cited as the third example of an extrinsic epithet (see Context to Anon (TGT) 33), here af atburð ‘by event’.

The metre is kviðuháttr. — The epithet is the word herská ‘beset by war, war-torn’. After the list of examples of epitheton, Óláfr states (TGT 1927, 80): Í ǫllum þessum háttum er óeiginlig líking milli viðleggjanligs nafns ok undirstæðiligs, ok þykkir þessi fígúra mest prýða skáldskap; þat kǫllu vér sannkenning ‘In all of these types there is an inexact comparison between an adjectival and substantival noun, and this figure is considered to be the greatest embellishment of poetry; we call it sannkenning’. — This fragment has strong echoes of Anon Nkt 5/3-4II á herskô | Hringaríki ‘in war-torn Ringerike’. — Another kviðuháttr fragment of a praise poem. See Note to st. 13 [All].

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Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], C. Vers om ubestemmelige personer og begivenheder 3: AI, 597, BI, 597, Skald I, 291; SnE 1818, 329, SnE 1848, 196, SnE 1848-87, II, 170-1, 423, TGT 1884, 28, 108, 225, TGT 1927, 80, 106.

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