Anon Hsv 35VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 35’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 382.
Af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
annars ‘another’s’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
dauða ‘death’
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dauði (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death
glez ‘’
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gleðja (verb): gladden, rejoice
aldrigi ‘Never’
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aldrigi (adv.): never
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
aldr ‘life’s’
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aldr (noun m.; °aldrs, dat. aldri; aldrar): life, age < aldrlag (noun n.): death
[4] aldrlagi: ‘[...]gí’ 696XV
lagi ‘end’
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lag (noun n.; °-s; *-): layer; (pl.) law < aldrlag (noun n.): death
[4] aldrlagi: ‘[...]gí’ 696XV
sínu ‘his own’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
kvíði ‘’
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3. kvíða (verb): fear
engi ‘no’
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2. engi (pron.): no, none
maðr ‘body’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
stendr ‘is’
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standa (verb): stand
hölðum ‘to men’
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hǫlðr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): man
[6] hölðum hel: ‘haulld[...]m[...]’ 401ˣ, ‘holl hol’ 624
notes
[6] hölðum hel ‘to men ... death’: The reading in 624 (‘nær stendr holl hol’) might indicate that the scribe of that ms. no longer understood the allusion to the role of Hel as the abode of the dead in Norse mythology or did not expect an allusion to pre-Christian mythology in a Christian poem.
hel ‘death’
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1. hel (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju): death, Hel, hell
[6] hölðum hel: ‘haulld[...]m[...]’ 401ˣ, ‘holl hol’ 624
notes
[6] hölðum hel ‘to men ... death’: The reading in 624 (‘nær stendr holl hol’) might indicate that the scribe of that ms. no longer understood the allusion to the role of Hel as the abode of the dead in Norse mythology or did not expect an allusion to pre-Christian mythology in a Christian poem.
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Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 19) Cum dubia et fragilis nobis sit vita tributa, / in mortem alterius spem tu tibi ponere noli ‘Since the life given to us is doubtful and fragile, do not place your hope in the death of another’.
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