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Anon (LaufE) 5III

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Laufás Edda 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 642.

Anonymous LausavísurStanzas from Laufás Edda
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text and translation

Ok óþokkaðr okkar
ostmýgir brauðgýgi;
bjúgr elr sorg um saurga
saupstríðir flot-Gríði.

Ok {óþokkaðr ostmýgir} okkar {brauðgýgi}; {bjúgr saupstríðir} elr sorg um {saurga flot-Gríði}.
 
‘And the disliked oppressor of cheese [MAN] bemoans the ogress of bread [WOMAN]; the bent tormentor of buttermilk [MAN] harbours grief about the filthy Gríðr <giantess> of fat [WOMAN].

notes and context

The helmingr illustrates derogatory kennings for ‘woman’ in which the base-word is a term for ‘troll-woman’ or ‘giantess’ and the determinant a word that refers to household items or female occupations.  

For similar derogatory kennings and circumloctions for ‘man’, see SnH Lv 1/8II, Anon 732b 2 and Án Lv 4VIII (Án 4), Note to [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 37: AI, 601, BI, 601, Skald I, 293, NN §1237; SnE 1848-87, II, 634, III, 204, LaufE 1979, 295, 379.

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