Anon (FoGT) 45III
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 45’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 623.
Moysen ‘Moses’
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Moyses (noun m.): [Moses]
notes
[1] Moysen ‘Moses’: The spelling of the ms. Also possible are Móisen, Moísen, and length on the last syllable (-én, so Skald). Moses the lawgiver is well represented in skaldic verse; cf. Anon Leið 18/2VII lagavísum Móísi ‘law-wise Moses’ and especially Anon Law 1/5VII Móyses kunni lögmáls list ‘Moses was skilled in the art of law-giving’.
lofar ‘praises’
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lofa (verb): praise, permit
ljósan ‘bright’
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ljóss (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): bright
lagamál ‘law-giving’
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lagamál (noun n.): [law-giving]
hið ‘’
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2. inn (art.): the
brennfagra ‘Burning fair’
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brennfagr (adj.): [Burning fair]
notes
[2] brennfagra ‘burning fair’: The epithet is a hap. leg. and probably alludes to Exod. XIX.16-20, which describe how God appeared before Moses on Mount Sinai in fire and smoke when he gave him the ten commandments.
þig ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
lofar ‘praises’
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lofa (verb): praise, permit
með ‘’
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með (prep.): with
öllu ‘absolutely’
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allr (adj.): all
alls ‘of all’
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allr (adj.): all
heims ‘the world’
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heimr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): home, abode; world
jöfurr ‘lord’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
kennings
jöfurr beima.‘lord of men.’
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lord of men. → God
beima ‘of men’
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beimi (noun m.; °; -ar): man
kennings
jöfurr beima.‘lord of men.’
= God
lord of men. → God
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[3-4]: Some emendation of these two lines is necessary to achieve grammatical sense. SnE 1848-87, II, 246-7 n. 2 first suggested emending W’s allr (l. 3) to allt, but collocated it as allt beima lit. ‘everything of men’, i.e. ‘all men’, which is unidiomatic. Björn Magnússon Ólsen (FoGT 1884) also adopted the minimal emendation of W’s allr to allt (l. 3), and his construal is followed in this edn. Skj B emends þik to herr (l. 3) and jǫfurr (nom.) to jǫfur (l. 4), reading allr herr beima lofar með ǫllu jǫfur alls heims, which Finnur translates as hele menneskenes skare lovpriser fuldkomment hele verdens konge ‘the whole troop of humans praises completely the king of the whole world’. Kock (NN §3165; Skald) emends þik to þing and allr to allt (l. 3), as well as jǫfurr to jǫfur (l. 4), collocating allt þing beima ‘all the assembly of men’ and jǫfur alls heims ‘the lord of all the world’ (l. 4). FoGT 2004 follows Kock’s emendations.
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