Anon (LaufE) 7III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Laufás Edda 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 644.
kennings
Vát*r linna vallfinnandi‘field-bestower of serpents’
= GENEROUS MAN
the field of serpents → GOLD
The wet bestower of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
notes
[1] vát*r; víst ‘wet; certainly’: Both mss have ‘Vattur’ and ‘vest’, which cannot be construed as Old Norse words, and the emendations are in keeping with earlier eds.
kom ‘came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
notes
[1] vát*r; víst ‘wet; certainly’: Both mss have ‘Vattur’ and ‘vest’, which cannot be construed as Old Norse words, and the emendations are in keeping with earlier eds.
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
notes
[1] at rétta ‘to hunt’: It is not quite clear what is meant here. Rétta lit. ‘herd’ refers to the herding or gathering of sheep in a fold (rétt) when they come down from the mountains in the autumn. Finnur Jónsson (LP: 2. rétta) suggests that the whale was hunted so that it was forced into a place where it was pent up. Alternatively, it could mean to frighten the whale into swimming ashore (so Skj B).
rétta ‘hunt’
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4. rétta (verb): set right
notes
[1] at rétta ‘to hunt’: It is not quite clear what is meant here. Rétta lit. ‘herd’ refers to the herding or gathering of sheep in a fold (rétt) when they come down from the mountains in the autumn. Finnur Jónsson (LP: 2. rétta) suggests that the whale was hunted so that it was forced into a place where it was pent up. Alternatively, it could mean to frighten the whale into swimming ashore (so Skj B).
vall ‘of the field’
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vǫllr (noun m.; °vallar, dat. velli; vellir acc. vǫllu/velli): plain, field < vallfinnandi (noun m.)
[2] vall‑: val‑ all
kennings
Vát*r linna vallfinnandi‘field-bestower of serpents’
= GENEROUS MAN
the field of serpents → GOLD
The wet bestower of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
vall ‘of the field’
(not checked:)
vǫllr (noun m.; °vallar, dat. velli; vellir acc. vǫllu/velli): plain, field < vallfinnandi (noun m.)
[2] vall‑: val‑ all
kennings
Vát*r linna vallfinnandi‘field-bestower of serpents’
= GENEROUS MAN
the field of serpents → GOLD
The wet bestower of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
finnandi ‘bestower’
(not checked:)
finnandi (noun m.): bestower, finder < vallfinnandi (noun m.)
kennings
Vát*r linna vallfinnandi‘field-bestower of serpents’
= GENEROUS MAN
the field of serpents → GOLD
The wet bestower of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
linna ‘of serpents’
(not checked:)
linnr (noun m.): snake
kennings
Vát*r linna vallfinnandi‘field-bestower of serpents’
= GENEROUS MAN
the field of serpents → GOLD
The wet bestower of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
linna ‘of serpents’
(not checked:)
linnr (noun m.): snake
kennings
Vát*r linna vallfinnandi‘field-bestower of serpents’
= GENEROUS MAN
the field of serpents → GOLD
The wet bestower of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
mærð ‘praise’
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mærð (noun f.): praise
mjúklig ‘smooth’
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mjúkligr (adj.): [smooth]
mín ‘my’
(not checked:)
minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
Víðblinda ‘of Víðblindi’
(not checked:)
Víðblindi (noun f.): Víðblindi
kennings
svíni Víðblinda;‘the swine of Víðblindi; ’
= WHALE
the swine of Víðblindi; → WHALE
notes
[4] Víðblinda ‘of Víðblindi <giant>’: The quantity of the first vowel ([i] or [i:]) cannot be established with certainty. According to Skm (SnE 1998, I, 63), Víðblindi var jǫtunn ok dró hvali í hafi út sem fiska ‘was a giant and pulled up whales like fish out at sea’. See also HSt Frag 3/2 and Note to Þul Jǫtna I 5/7.
svíni ‘the swine’
(not checked:)
svín (noun n.; °-s; -): swine, pig
kennings
svíni Víðblinda;‘the swine of Víðblindi; ’
= WHALE
the swine of Víðblindi; → WHALE
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The helmingr is cited to illustrate kennings for ‘whale’ in which the base-word is a term for ‘pig’ and the determinant is the sea-giant Víðblindi.
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