Anon Hsv 137VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 137’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 441-2.
Hjarðir ‘herds’
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hjǫrð (noun f.; °hjarðar, dat. -/-u; hjarðir/hjarðar): herd
sæfa ‘to kill’
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sœfa (verb): die, kill
skaltu ‘’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
til ‘for’
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til (prep.): to
hylli ‘the honour’
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hylli (noun f.; °-): favour
[2] hylli: so 720a IV, 723aˣ, 624, hylla 1199ˣ
guðs ‘of God’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
bættu ‘’
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bœta (verb; °-tt-): better, emend, compensate
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[3] beit ‘harness, bite’: There is a play here on the senses of beita: the expression beita fyrir ‘to harness (an animal) to (a vehicle, plough, etc.)’; and the sense of the same verb, ‘cause to bite, hunt’, which can relate to the killing of animals for sacrifice mentioned in the first cl.
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[3] þú: þín 720a IV, 624, því 723aˣ
yxn ‘oxen’
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oxi (noun m.; °-a; yxn/øxn/oxar): ox
fyrir ‘to’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
arðr ‘a plough’
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arðr (noun m.; °arðs, dat. arðri/arði, acc. arðr/arð): plough
reykelsis ‘of incense’
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reykelsi (noun n.; °-s): [incense]
[4, 5] reykelsis ilm þann: þann reykelsis ilm 723aˣ
ilm ‘fragrance’
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ilmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i;): fragrance
[4, 5] reykelsis ilm þann: þann reykelsis ilm 723aˣ
þann ‘the’
[4, 5] reykelsis ilm þann: þann reykelsis ilm 723aˣ
kemr ‘comes’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
réttum ‘correct’
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3. réttr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): right, straight, direct
siðum ‘religious observances’
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siðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/-i; -ir, acc. -u): faith, morals
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[6] vill ‘will’: The reading þat at the start of this l. in most mss does not seem to work grammatically, as þat n. cannot agree with ilm m. in l. 4.
hann ‘He’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
fyrir ‘in place of’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
takn ‘’
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tákn (noun n.; °-s; -): token
taka ‘accept’
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2. taka (verb): take
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Lat. parallel: (Dist. IV, 38) Ture deum placa, vitulum sine crescrat aratro: / ne credas gaudere deum, cum caede litatur ‘Please God with incense, that the calf may grow without the plough; do not think to please God when sacrifice is made to him by killing’. The same idea is expressed in Hsv 119, possibly deriving from Pss 49 and 50.
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