Cookies on our website

We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used. You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on the cookies page.

Continue

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Menu Search

Close

Anon (TGT) 26^III

Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 26’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 554.

Anonymous Lausavísur Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise

Band ‘a band’

(not checked:)
band (noun n.; °-s; *-): band, bond

notes

[1] band með endum ‘a band with ends’: LP: band takes this instance literally (as here) and gives the meaning of the phrase as uncertain. Band probably refers to a headband or other item such as a tape or strap on a woman’s clothing (cf. Ólhelg Lv 2/7-8^I) and með endum may refer to ornamentation or a buckle at the ends of the band. The item would therefore be a gift from the woman to the poet. In connection with other stanzas mentioning women in TGT, band could be interpreted figuratively as ‘constraint, constraining bond’ (ONP: band 6, although only one citation is sg.) or a bond of marriage or other relationship (ONP: band 8). Kock (NN §1232) explains this expression with reference to Þfagr Sveinn 10/7^II and Anon (HSig) 2/1^II, in which með endum means ‘from end to end, completely’, therefore ‘a complete band’.

gaf ‘gave’

(not checked:)
gefa (verb): give

oss ‘us [me]’

(not checked:)
vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our

með ‘with’

(not checked:)
með (prep.): with

notes

[1] band með endum ‘a band with ends’: LP: band takes this instance literally (as here) and gives the meaning of the phrase as uncertain. Band probably refers to a headband or other item such as a tape or strap on a woman’s clothing (cf. Ólhelg Lv 2/7-8^I) and með endum may refer to ornamentation or a buckle at the ends of the band. The item would therefore be a gift from the woman to the poet. In connection with other stanzas mentioning women in TGT, band could be interpreted figuratively as ‘constraint, constraining bond’ (ONP: band 6, although only one citation is sg.) or a bond of marriage or other relationship (ONP: band 8). Kock (NN §1232) explains this expression with reference to Þfagr Sveinn 10/7^II and Anon (HSig) 2/1^II, in which með endum means ‘from end to end, completely’, therefore ‘a complete band’.

endum ‘ends’

(not checked:)
endi (noun m.): end

notes

[1] band með endum ‘a band with ends’: LP: band takes this instance literally (as here) and gives the meaning of the phrase as uncertain. Band probably refers to a headband or other item such as a tape or strap on a woman’s clothing (cf. Ólhelg Lv 2/7-8^I) and með endum may refer to ornamentation or a buckle at the ends of the band. The item would therefore be a gift from the woman to the poet. In connection with other stanzas mentioning women in TGT, band could be interpreted figuratively as ‘constraint, constraining bond’ (ONP: band 6, although only one citation is sg.) or a bond of marriage or other relationship (ONP: band 8). Kock (NN §1232) explains this expression with reference to Þfagr Sveinn 10/7^II and Anon (HSig) 2/1^II, in which með endum means ‘from end to end, completely’, therefore ‘a complete band’.

Ilmr ‘The Ilmr’

(not checked:)
Ilmr (noun f.): Ilmr

kennings

Ilmr bála lýskála
‘The Ilmr of the fires of the pollack-hall ’
= WOMAN
the pollack-hall → SEA
the fires of the SEA → GOLD
The Ilmr of the GOLD → WOMAN

notes

[2] Ilmr ‘the Ilmr <goddess>’: Cf. Þul Ásynja 1/8.

lý ‘of the pollack’

(not checked:)
lýr (noun m.): pollack, fish < lýskáli (noun m.)

kennings

Ilmr bála lýskála
‘The Ilmr of the fires of the pollack-hall ’
= WOMAN
the pollack-hall → SEA
the fires of the SEA → GOLD
The Ilmr of the GOLD → WOMAN

notes

[2] lý- ‘pollack-’: Lýr m. is a type of fish (Pollachius pollachius; cf. Note to Þul Fiska 3/8).

lý ‘of the pollack’

(not checked:)
lýr (noun m.): pollack, fish < lýskáli (noun m.)

kennings

Ilmr bála lýskála
‘The Ilmr of the fires of the pollack-hall ’
= WOMAN
the pollack-hall → SEA
the fires of the SEA → GOLD
The Ilmr of the GOLD → WOMAN

notes

[2] lý- ‘pollack-’: Lýr m. is a type of fish (Pollachius pollachius; cf. Note to Þul Fiska 3/8).

lý ‘of the pollack’

(not checked:)
lýr (noun m.): pollack, fish < lýskáli (noun m.)

kennings

Ilmr bála lýskála
‘The Ilmr of the fires of the pollack-hall ’
= WOMAN
the pollack-hall → SEA
the fires of the SEA → GOLD
The Ilmr of the GOLD → WOMAN

notes

[2] lý- ‘pollack-’: Lýr m. is a type of fish (Pollachius pollachius; cf. Note to Þul Fiska 3/8).

skála ‘hall’

(not checked:)
skáli (noun m.; °-a; -ar): hall < lýskáli (noun m.)

kennings

Ilmr bála lýskála
‘The Ilmr of the fires of the pollack-hall ’
= WOMAN
the pollack-hall → SEA
the fires of the SEA → GOLD
The Ilmr of the GOLD → WOMAN

skála ‘hall’

(not checked:)
skáli (noun m.; °-a; -ar): hall < lýskáli (noun m.)

kennings

Ilmr bála lýskála
‘The Ilmr of the fires of the pollack-hall ’
= WOMAN
the pollack-hall → SEA
the fires of the SEA → GOLD
The Ilmr of the GOLD → WOMAN

skála ‘hall’

(not checked:)
skáli (noun m.; °-a; -ar): hall < lýskáli (noun m.)

kennings

Ilmr bála lýskála
‘The Ilmr of the fires of the pollack-hall ’
= WOMAN
the pollack-hall → SEA
the fires of the SEA → GOLD
The Ilmr of the GOLD → WOMAN

bála ‘of the fires’

(not checked:)
bál (noun n.; °-s; -): fire

kennings

Ilmr bála lýskála
‘The Ilmr of the fires of the pollack-hall ’
= WOMAN
the pollack-hall → SEA
the fires of the SEA → GOLD
The Ilmr of the GOLD → WOMAN

bála ‘of the fires’

(not checked:)
bál (noun n.; °-s; -): fire

kennings

Ilmr bála lýskála
‘The Ilmr of the fires of the pollack-hall ’
= WOMAN
the pollack-hall → SEA
the fires of the SEA → GOLD
The Ilmr of the GOLD → WOMAN

Interactive view: tap on words in the text for notes and glosses

Cited as an example of homoeoteleuton (‘omolemiton’; TGT 1927, 7): Omolemiton heldr saman margar raddir undir hinum sama enda ‘Homoeoteleuton holds together many sounds with the same ending’. He continues after the citation (TGT 1927, 71): Þat kǫllum vér riðhendan hátt. Hin sama fígúra er í hinum nýja hætti sem Snorri kvað ‘We call that the rocking-rhymed verse-form. The same figure is in inn nýi háttr [‘the new verse-form’] as Snorri said’. He then cites SnSt Ht 73/1-4 as a second example of homoeoteleuton. Riðhent ‘rocking-rhymed’ (cf. SnSt Ht 32) is where aðalhendingar in even Type D-lines are placed in metrical positions 3 and 5 with an unstressed syllable between them (here, lýskála bála).

The fourth of five unattributed dróttkvætt fragments in TGT which refer to a woman. Cf. Note to Anon (TGT) 6 [All].

log in home page info previous up a level next archive and create persistent link on archive.org

© Skaldic Project Academic Body and Brepols, unless otherwise noted. Database structure and interface developed by Tarrin Wills. All users of material on this database are reminded that its content may be either subject to copyright restrictions or is the property of the custodians of linked databases that have given permission for members of the skaldic project to use their material for research purposes. Those users who have been given access to as yet unpublished material are further reminded that they may not use, publish or otherwise manipulate such material except with the express permission of the individual editor of the material in question and the General Editor of the volume in which the material is to be published. Applications for permission to use such material should be made in the first instance to the General Editor of the volume in question. All information that appears in the published volumes has been thoroughly reviewed. If you believe some information here is incorrect please contact Tarrin Wills with full details.

Close

Stanza/chapter/text segment

Use the buttons at the top of the page to navigate between stanzas in a poem.

Information tab

text: if the stanza has been published, the edited text of the stanza and translation are here; if it hasn't been published an old edition (usually Skj) is given for reference
sources: a list of the manuscripts or inscriptions containing this stanza, with page and line references and links (eye button) to images where available, and transcription where available
readings: a list of variant manuscript readings of words in the main text
editions and texts: a list of editions of the stanza with links to the bibliography; and a list of prose works in which the stanza occurs, allowing you to navigate within the prose context
notes and context: notes not linked to individual words are given here, along with the account of the prose context for the stanza, where relevant

Interactive tab

The text and translation are given here, with buttons to toggle whether the text is shown in the verse order or prose word order. Clicking on indiviudal words gives dictionary links, variant readings, kennings and notes, where relevant.

Full text tab

This is the text of the edition in a similar format to how the edition appears in the printed volumes.

Chapter/text segment

This view is also used for chapters and other text segments. Not all the headings shown are relevant to such sections.