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Anon (TGT) 5III

Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 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. 540.

Anonymous LausavísurStanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise
456

text and translation

Þorði Iðja orða.

{Orða Iðja} … þorði.
 
‘Of the words of Iði <giant> [GOLD] … dared.

notes and context

Cited as an example of barbarismus where vowels of equal length are juxtaposed in adjoining syllables (TGT 1927, 48): Enn telr Dónátús þann lǫst með barbarismo, ef ii. raddarstafir jafnlangir standaz hit næsta í tveim samstǫfum ‘Donatus also ascribes to barbarism the fault where two vowels of equal length stand next to each other in two syllables’.

The figure illustrated here can be seen in the fragment as -i i- in þorði Iðja and/or -a o- in Iðja orða. It corresponds to the figure of hiatus which Donatus lists but does not explain. Hiatus is elaborated further in Hiberno-Latin commentaries, e.g. by Sedulius Scottus (CCCM 40B, 334): Hiatus sunt, sicuti diximus, cum similes uocales ac similiter longae collisam hiantemque structuram ‘Hiatus is, as we have said, when similar vowels of similar length make a clashed and gaping structure’. — The one-line fragment has aðalhending, but the double alliteration indicates that it must be an odd line.

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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 41: AI, 601, BI, 601, Skald I, 293, NN §2810; SnE 1818, 313, SnE 1848, 184, SnE 1848-87, II, 108-9, 408, 510, III, 140, TGT 1884, 16, 71, 179, TGT 1927, 48, 94.

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