Ólhv Frag 2III
Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, Fragments 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 303.
hef ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
k ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
sagt ‘said’
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segja (verb): say, tell
es ‘what’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
sjálfr ‘myself’
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sjalfr (adj.): self
vissa ‘knew’
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1. vita (verb): know
k ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
dulðr ‘ignorant of’
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dylja (verb; °dulði; dulðr/duliðr/dulinn (præs. sg. 3. pers. dyll Hirð 401²³, etc., dyl FrostKrᴵ 152¹⁹, etc.)): conceal
fer ‘am’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
k ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hins ‘about’
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2. inn (art.): the
es ‘what’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
drengr ‘the man’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
þegir ‘silent’
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þegja (verb): be silent
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Cited as an example of perissologia, that is, the superfluous addition of words, here in the repetition of the general point of the first couplet in the second (TGT 1927, 57): Hér þarf ekki hit síðarra mál, þvíat þat má skilja, ef maðr segir þat, er hann veit, at hann þegir yfir því, er hann veit eigi ‘Here the last clause is not needed because it may be understood that if a man says what he knows, he will be silent about what he does not know’.
The attribution to Óláfr is based on the similarity to this stanza with the corresponding example in Donatus (Keil 1855-80, IV, 395), ibant qua poterant, qua non poterant non ibant ‘they went wherever they could; where they could not, they did not go’. The examples are close in their structure, although the Old Norse version is adapted for what may be a closing stanza to a kviðuháttr poem. This is one of a number of unattributed kviðuháttr fragments of one or more poems. See Anon (TGT) 13, Note to [All] for related stanzas.
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