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.
Allr ‘The whole’
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allr (adj.): all
lýtr ‘bows’
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1. lúta (verb): (strong)
heimr ‘world’
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heimr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): home, abode; world
[1] heimr: ‘[…]imr’ W
notes
[1] heimr ‘world’: Although the first two letters are now largely obscured, earlier eds have not indicated any difficulty in reading heimr.
und ‘before’
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath
hylli ‘the grace’
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hylli (noun f.; °-): favour
heilags ‘of the holy’
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heilagr (adj.; °helgan; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): holy, sacred
kennings
heilags deilis friðar.‘of the holy distributor of salvation.’
= God
the holy distributor of salvation. → God
friðar ‘of salvation’
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friðr (noun m.): peace
kennings
heilags deilis friðar.‘of the holy distributor of salvation.’
= God
the holy distributor of salvation. → God
notes
[2] friðar ‘of salvation’: Translated here in the specifically Christian sense of salvation rather than the less specific ‘peace’ (cf. LP: friðr 5).
deilis ‘distributor’
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deilir (noun m.): ruler, ordainer
kennings
heilags deilis friðar.‘of the holy distributor of salvation.’
= God
the holy distributor of salvation. → God
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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 her ‘Cosmographia 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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