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.
Þorði ‘dared’
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þora (verb): dare
Iðja ‘of Iði’
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Iði (noun m.): Iði
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Orða Iðja …‘Of the words of Iði ’
= GOLD
Of the words of Iði → GOLD
notes
[1] orða Iðja ‘of the words of Iði <giant> [GOLD]’: The kenning for ‘gold’ refers to a myth according to which the giant Iði and his brothers (including Þjazi) received an inheritance by taking equal mouthfuls of gold (Skm 1998, I, 3; see Note to Anon Bjark 5/8).
orða ‘Of the words’
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orð (noun n.; °-s; -): word
kennings
Orða Iðja …‘Of the words of Iði ’
= GOLD
Of the words of Iði → GOLD
notes
[1] orða Iðja ‘of the words of Iði <giant> [GOLD]’: The kenning for ‘gold’ refers to a myth according to which the giant Iði and his brothers (including Þjazi) received an inheritance by taking equal mouthfuls of gold (Skm 1998, I, 3; see Note to Anon Bjark 5/8).
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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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