Bragi Frag 2III
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Fragments 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 56.
Hinn ‘The one’
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2. inn (art.): the
es ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
varp ‘threw’
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1. verpa (verb): to throw, cast (up)
á ‘into’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
kennings
víða munnlaug vinda‘the wide hand-basin of winds ’
= SKY/HEAVEN
the wide hand-basin of winds → SKY/HEAVEN
vinda ‘of winds’
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1. vindr (noun m.; °-s/-ar; -ar): wind
kennings
víða munnlaug vinda‘the wide hand-basin of winds ’
= SKY/HEAVEN
the wide hand-basin of winds → SKY/HEAVEN
ǫndur ‘of the ski’
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andr (noun m.; °; andrar): ski < ǫndurdís (noun f.): [ski-dís]
[2] ǫndurdísar: ‘aundr disar’ Tˣ, ‘ondvr disa’ W
kennings
fǫður ǫndurdísar‘of the father of the ski-dís ’
= Þjazi
the ski-dís → Skaði
the father of SKAÐI → Þjazi
notes
[2] ǫndurdísar ‘of the ski-dís <minor female deity>’: The ski-dís is the giantess Skaði, daughter of Þjazi (see Introduction). In Gylf (SnE 2005, 23-4) Snorri gives a description of Skaði, whose marriage to the sea-god Njǫrðr was one of the gods’ compensations to her for her father’s death at their hands (the latter and the circumstances of their marriage are described in Skm, SnE 1998, I, 2). Skaði and her father are associated with mountains at a place called Þrymheimr ‘Noise world’, and she is said in Gylf to be fond of skiing and shooting wild animals with bow and arrows, hence her name ǫndurguð eða ǫndurdís ‘ski-deity or ski-dís’ (SnE 2005, 24).
ǫndur ‘of the ski’
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andr (noun m.; °; andrar): ski < ǫndurdís (noun f.): [ski-dís]
[2] ǫndurdísar: ‘aundr disar’ Tˣ, ‘ondvr disa’ W
kennings
fǫður ǫndurdísar‘of the father of the ski-dís ’
= Þjazi
the ski-dís → Skaði
the father of SKAÐI → Þjazi
notes
[2] ǫndurdísar ‘of the ski-dís <minor female deity>’: The ski-dís is the giantess Skaði, daughter of Þjazi (see Introduction). In Gylf (SnE 2005, 23-4) Snorri gives a description of Skaði, whose marriage to the sea-god Njǫrðr was one of the gods’ compensations to her for her father’s death at their hands (the latter and the circumstances of their marriage are described in Skm, SnE 1998, I, 2). Skaði and her father are associated with mountains at a place called Þrymheimr ‘Noise world’, and she is said in Gylf to be fond of skiing and shooting wild animals with bow and arrows, hence her name ǫndurguð eða ǫndurdís ‘ski-deity or ski-dís’ (SnE 2005, 24).
dísar ‘dís’
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dís (noun f.; °; -ir): dís, woman < ǫndurdís (noun f.): [ski-dís]
[2] ǫndurdísar: ‘aundr disar’ Tˣ, ‘ondvr disa’ W
kennings
fǫður ǫndurdísar‘of the father of the ski-dís ’
= Þjazi
the ski-dís → Skaði
the father of SKAÐI → Þjazi
notes
[2] ǫndurdísar ‘of the ski-dís <minor female deity>’: The ski-dís is the giantess Skaði, daughter of Þjazi (see Introduction). In Gylf (SnE 2005, 23-4) Snorri gives a description of Skaði, whose marriage to the sea-god Njǫrðr was one of the gods’ compensations to her for her father’s death at their hands (the latter and the circumstances of their marriage are described in Skm, SnE 1998, I, 2). Skaði and her father are associated with mountains at a place called Þrymheimr ‘Noise world’, and she is said in Gylf to be fond of skiing and shooting wild animals with bow and arrows, hence her name ǫndurguð eða ǫndurdís ‘ski-deity or ski-dís’ (SnE 2005, 24).
dísar ‘dís’
(not checked:)
dís (noun f.; °; -ir): dís, woman < ǫndurdís (noun f.): [ski-dís]
[2] ǫndurdísar: ‘aundr disar’ Tˣ, ‘ondvr disa’ W
kennings
fǫður ǫndurdísar‘of the father of the ski-dís ’
= Þjazi
the ski-dís → Skaði
the father of SKAÐI → Þjazi
notes
[2] ǫndurdísar ‘of the ski-dís <minor female deity>’: The ski-dís is the giantess Skaði, daughter of Þjazi (see Introduction). In Gylf (SnE 2005, 23-4) Snorri gives a description of Skaði, whose marriage to the sea-god Njǫrðr was one of the gods’ compensations to her for her father’s death at their hands (the latter and the circumstances of their marriage are described in Skm, SnE 1998, I, 2). Skaði and her father are associated with mountains at a place called Þrymheimr ‘Noise world’, and she is said in Gylf to be fond of skiing and shooting wild animals with bow and arrows, hence her name ǫndurguð eða ǫndurdís ‘ski-deity or ski-dís’ (SnE 2005, 24).
notes
[3] of ‘above’: Most eds normalise all mss’ yfir ‘over, above, on top of’ to the more archaic of to produce a regular dróttkvætt line.
manna ‘men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
notes
[3] sjǫt margra manna ‘the dwellings of many men’: This n. noun may be sg. ‘dwelling’ or pl., as translated here.
notes
[3] sjǫt margra manna ‘the dwellings of many men’: This n. noun may be sg. ‘dwelling’ or pl., as translated here.
margra ‘of many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
notes
[3] sjǫt margra manna ‘the dwellings of many men’: This n. noun may be sg. ‘dwelling’ or pl., as translated here.
munn ‘hand’
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munnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): mouth < mundlaug (noun f.)
[4] munn‑: mun‑ W, U, B
kennings
víða munnlaug vinda‘the wide hand-basin of winds ’
= SKY/HEAVEN
the wide hand-basin of winds → SKY/HEAVEN
laug ‘basin’
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laug (noun f.; °-ar; dat. -u/-; -ar): bath, hot spring < mundlaug (noun f.)
kennings
víða munnlaug vinda‘the wide hand-basin of winds ’
= SKY/HEAVEN
the wide hand-basin of winds → SKY/HEAVEN
kennings
fǫður ǫndurdísar‘of the father of the ski-dís ’
= Þjazi
the ski-dís → Skaði
the father of SKAÐI → Þjazi
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