Anon (TGT) 15III
Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 15’ 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 ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
orð ‘word’
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orð (noun n.; °-s; -): word < orðslœgr (adj.)
[1] orðslœgjum: ‘vslǫgum’ corrected from ‘vrslǫgum’ W
notes
[1] orðslœgjum ‘word-cunning’: This word is used elsewhere with strong negative connotations and only in religious contexts, including Jón Lv 1/4IV, referring to the devil, and in Konungs skuggsjá (Holm-Olsen 1983, 76, 83) where it describes the serpent in the Garden of Eden. The cpd does not necessarily have these connotations in the present context.
slœgjum ‘cunning’
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2. slœgr (adj.): skilful < orðslœgr (adj.)
[1] orðslœgjum: ‘vslǫgum’ corrected from ‘vrslǫgum’ W
notes
[1] orðslœgjum ‘word-cunning’: This word is used elsewhere with strong negative connotations and only in religious contexts, including Jón Lv 1/4IV, referring to the devil, and in Konungs skuggsjá (Holm-Olsen 1983, 76, 83) where it describes the serpent in the Garden of Eden. The cpd does not necessarily have these connotations in the present context.
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
aldr ‘fame’
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aldr (noun m.; °aldrs, dat. aldri; aldrar): life, age < aldrbót (noun f.): fame
bót ‘’
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bót (noun f.; °-ar; bǿtr): compensation < aldrbót (noun f.): fame
konungs ‘the king’s’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
notes
[2] aldrbót ‘fame’: The sense of this word (lit. ‘life-reward’) is ‘an improvement in [the skald’s] circumstances’.
skaldi ‘skald’
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skáld (noun n.; °-s; -): poet
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Cited as a second example (the first being Ólhv Frag 3) of amphibolia, ambiguity of diction. The figure illustrated here is ‘separation of words’ (sundrtekning orðanna, TGT 1927, 60), i.e. ambiguity concerning which words belong together.
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