Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 17’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 549.
Krossfestum sé Kristi
kunnr vegr ok lof unnit
megn ok máttr sem tígnar
mest vald, þats fersk aldri.
Kunnr vegr ok lof, megn ok máttr, sem mest tígnarvald, þats aldri fersk, sé unnit krossfestum Kristi.
‘May famous honour and praise, power and might, as well as the greatest strength of honour that will never perish, be granted to the crucified Christ.’
The stanza appears under the section of schemata lexeos (‘scemalexeos’, ‘figures of words’; TGT 1927, 66): er scema lexeos nefnd sem skrúð máls eða ræðu ‘schemata lexeos means the ornamentation of language or speech’. This is an example of zeugma (‘zeuma’), i.e. where a word or phrase belongs to more than one part of the sentence.
The zeugma here occurs because one verb governs several nouns (TGT 1927, 67): Þetta orð, sé, styrir ǫllum þessum nǫfnum, vegr lof megn máttr vald ‘This word “may ... be” governs all these nouns: “honour,” “praise,” “power,” “might,” “strength”’. — This stanza is referred to as Anon (TGT) 21 in Note to Anon Lil 96/1VII in SkP VII.
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.
krossfæstum ⸌se⸍ christi kvnnr vegr ok lof vnnit megn | ok máttr sæm tignar mest valld þat ær fers alldri .
(VEÞ)
Krossfestum sé Kristi
kunnr vegr ok lof unnit
megn ok máttr sem tígnir
mest vald, þats fremst aldri.
krossfestum se kristí kvnnr vegr ok lof vnnið megn ok mꜳ̋ttr | sem tigner mest valld þat er fremzt alldri.
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