Anon Hsv 101VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 101’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 420-1.
Liðs ‘for help’
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lið (noun n.; °-s; -): retinue, troop
skal ‘must’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
ráða ‘have command’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
lög ‘of legal’
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lag (noun n.; °-s; *-): layer; (pl.) law < lǫgskil (noun n.)
skilum ‘procedure’
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skil (noun n.; °; -): knowledge < lǫgskil (noun n.)
verðr ‘’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
lýtum ‘of faults’
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2. lýti (noun n.; °-s; -): fault, sin
loginn ‘unjustly accused’
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loginn (adj.): [unjustly accused]
máli ‘’
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1. mál (noun n.; °-s; -): speech, matter
verz ‘defends himself’
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3. verja (verb): defend
réttu ‘rights’
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1. réttr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/-i; -ir, acc. -i/-u): right, entitlement
náir ‘gets’
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1. ná (verb): reach, get, manage
hvar ‘’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
sá ‘’
[6] maðr sá er: hvar 624
dómendr ‘the judges’
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dómandi (noun m.; °-a; dómendr): judge
duga ‘help’
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duga (verb; °dugir; dugði; dugat): help, befit
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Lat. parallel: (Dist. III, 16) Iudicis auxilium sub † iniquitate rogato, / ipsae etiam leges cupiunt, ut iure rogentur ‘Beg for the aid of the judge in an unjust lawsuit, for the very laws themselves desire to be questioned properly’. — [4-6]: Skj B has the same text as here (except sá er (624) for ef (1199ˣ) or en (Hallgrímur Scheving) in l. 5). Kock (NN §114) questions the metre, particularly the stress on the non-pronominal maðr, which he omits in Skald.
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