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Anon (FoGT) 5III

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth 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. 578.

Anonymous LausavísurStanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise
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text and translation

Allr lýtr heimr und hylli
heilags friðar deilis.

Allr heimr lýtr und hylli {heilags deilis friðar}.
 
‘The whole world bows before the grace of the holy distributor of salvation [= God].

notes and context

This couplet is cited in FoGT as an example of the figure of cosmographia, which is defined by the author thus: Cosmographía er þat, er skalldit seger fra heimsins skipan, skapan, stǫðv ęðr hættí ęðr setningv, sem herCosmographia is when the poet speaks about the order of the world, its creation, location or nature or design, as here’.

Björn Magnússon Ólsen (FoGT 1884, 245) considered this couplet was rather an unconvincing instance of the figure of cosmographia, and thought the example might be somewhat older than the treatise itself rather than a creation of the author. However, from the perspective of a medieval Christian, there is no problem in understanding the couplet as describing the nature or mode of being (háttr) of the world.

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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 [XIII], [C]. D. Religiøse og moraliserende vers af den 4. grammatiske afhandling 2: AII, 163, BII, 180, Skald II, 94; SnE 1848-87, II, 196-7, III, 154, FoGT 1884, 122, 245, FoGT 2004, 33, 61, 92, FoGT 2014, 6-7, 60.

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