Anon (TGT) 36III
Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 36’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 562.
notes
[1] fremi (3rd pers. pres. sg. subj.) ‘may ... help’: The reading of this verb as imp. in Skj B is contradicted by its grammatical form, the word order in the main ms., and the prose context, all of which suggest the sense given here.
hinn ‘’
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2. inn (art.): the
es ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
himna ‘heavens’
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himinn (noun m.; °himins, dat. himni; himnar): heaven, sky
heim ‘world’
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heimr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): home, abode; world < heimstýrir (noun m.)
kennings
Heimstýrir,‘May the world-controller, ’
= God
May the world-controller, → God
stýrir ‘controller’
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stýrir (noun m.): ruler, controller < heimstýrir (noun m.)
kennings
Heimstýrir,‘May the world-controller, ’
= God
May the world-controller, → God
skóp ‘created’
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2. skapa (verb): form
dýra ‘the precious’
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dýrr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -str/-astr): precious
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Cited as an example of a type of hyperbaton (‘yperbaton’), which is defined as follows (TGT 1927, 82): Yperbaton er nǫkkur yfirstigning orðanna, sú er hætti bregðr ‘Hyperbaton is a certain transgression of words which alters their arrangement’. Hyperbaton is divided into five subcategories and this couplet illustrates the second type, synchysis (‘sinthesis’; TGT 1927, 83): Sinthesis er alla leið samansteypt ræða ‘Synchysis is a confusion of all parts of discourse’.
The figure of synchesis appears in the placement of oss fremi at the beginning of the couplet. Óláfr comments (TGT 1927, 83): Hér er þat mál síðarr sett, er fyrr skal vera, þvíat sá heimstýrir, er himna skóp, fremr oss nú hversdagliga ‘Here the clause which should be first is put at the end, because the world-ruler who created the heavens now helps us every day’.
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