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Anon (SnE) 4^III

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 515.

Anonymous Lausavísur Stanzas from Snorra Edda

Heill ‘’

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3. heill (adj.; °heilan; compar. heilli, superl. -astr/-str): healthy, hale, hail

[1] Heill: ‘[…]ill’ U

notes

[1] komt heill ‘welcome’: Lit. ‘come you hale, healthy’. The RE 1665 variant, (normalised) sé þú lit. ‘be you’, is also possible, but apparently an innovation in that redaction.

komt ‘Welcome’

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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come

[1] komt (‘kom þv’): ‘sie tu’ RE 1665

notes

[1] komt heill ‘welcome’: Lit. ‘come you hale, healthy’. The RE 1665 variant, (normalised) sé þú lit. ‘be you’, is also possible, but apparently an innovation in that redaction.

handar ‘of the hand’

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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand

kennings

hlynr svella handar!’
‘maple of ice-sheets of the hand!’ ’
= MAN
ice-sheets of the hand!’ → SILVER
maple of the SILVER → MAN

notes

[1] svella handar ‘of ice-sheets of the hand [SILVER]’: For a comparable silver-kenning, see svell greipar ‘ice of the hand’ (Anon Stríðk l. 7).

handar ‘of the hand’

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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand

kennings

hlynr svella handar!’
‘maple of ice-sheets of the hand!’ ’
= MAN
ice-sheets of the hand!’ → SILVER
maple of the SILVER → MAN

notes

[1] svella handar ‘of ice-sheets of the hand [SILVER]’: For a comparable silver-kenning, see svell greipar ‘ice of the hand’ (Anon Stríðk l. 7).

svella ‘of ice-sheets’

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svell (noun n.; °; -): ice

kennings

hlynr svella handar!’
‘maple of ice-sheets of the hand!’ ’
= MAN
ice-sheets of the hand!’ → SILVER
maple of the SILVER → MAN

notes

[1] svella handar ‘of ice-sheets of the hand [SILVER]’: For a comparable silver-kenning, see svell greipar ‘ice of the hand’ (Anon Stríðk l. 7).

svella ‘of ice-sheets’

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svell (noun n.; °; -): ice

kennings

hlynr svella handar!’
‘maple of ice-sheets of the hand!’ ’
= MAN
ice-sheets of the hand!’ → SILVER
maple of the SILVER → MAN

notes

[1] svella handar ‘of ice-sheets of the hand [SILVER]’: For a comparable silver-kenning, see svell greipar ‘ice of the hand’ (Anon Stríðk l. 7).

hlynr ‘maple’

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hlynr (noun m.; °-s): maple

kennings

hlynr svella handar!’
‘maple of ice-sheets of the hand!’ ’
= MAN
ice-sheets of the hand!’ → SILVER
maple of the SILVER → MAN

Kvaddi ‘was the greeting’

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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet

svá ‘Thus’

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svá (adv.): so, thus

brynja ‘of the byrnie’

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1. brynja (noun f.; °-u (dat. brynnoni Gibb 38⁹); -ur): mailcoat

[2] brynja: brynju Tˣ, U, A, C

notes

[2] brynja ‘the byrnie’: So R, W, 2368ˣ, RE 1665. Taken here as the subject of kvaddi lit. ‘greeted’. The Tˣ, U, A, C variant brynju (oblique, sg.) has stronger support among the SnE mss and could be the object of kvaddi, which would require that hlynr svella handar be construed as the subject of that verb rather than as a form of address (‘thus the maple of ice-sheets of the hand [SILVER > MAN] greeted the byrnie’; so Skj B and Skald). However, as Kock (NN §3132) points out, that entails emendation of the m. heill (lit. ‘healthy, hale’) to f. heil because brynju is f. acc. sg. The present edn follows SnE 1848-87 and SnE 1998.

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The couplet is cited to illustrate man-kennings in which the base-word (m.) is a kind of tree, here, hlynr ‘maple’.

The couplet is fragmentary, and the present edn attempts to make syntactic and semantic sense of the two lines that are preserved.

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