Anon Lil 67VII
Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Lilja 67’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 639.
Síðan ‘Then’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
reis ‘rose’
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rísa (verb): rise, raise
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
sigri ‘victory’
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sigr (noun m.; °sigrs/sigrar, dat. sigri; sigrar): victory
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
dauða ‘death’
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dauði (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death
sunnudag ‘on a Sunday’
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sunnudagr (noun m.): Sunday
[2] sunnudag: á sunnudag 99a, 705ˣ, sunnudaginn Vb, 41 8°ˣ
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
[2] og gjörði kunnan: so 99a, 622, 713, Vb, 41 8°ˣ, 705ˣ, 4892, om. Bb
gjörði ‘made’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
[2] og gjörði kunnan: so 99a, 622, 713, Vb, 41 8°ˣ, 705ˣ, 4892, om. Bb
kunnan ‘known’
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kunnr (adj.): known (?)
[2] og gjörði kunnan: so 99a, 622, 713, Vb, 41 8°ˣ, 705ˣ, 4892, om. Bb
sinn ‘his’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
ódauðleik ‘immortality’
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ódauðleikr (noun m.): [immortality]
[3] ódauðleik: ódauðleika 4892
mörgum ‘to many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
mildin ‘goodness’
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mildi (noun f.): generosity, mercy
notes
[4] mildin sjálf ‘goodness itself’: The same phrase is used of Mary in 95/2. Its meaning is not specifically theological: the connotations are ‘kindness, clemency, mercy’, and it is used elsewhere to describe motherly love and as a form of address (see Fritzner).
sjálf ‘itself’
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sjalfr (adj.): self
notes
[4] mildin sjálf ‘goodness itself’: The same phrase is used of Mary in 95/2. Its meaning is not specifically theological: the connotations are ‘kindness, clemency, mercy’, and it is used elsewhere to describe motherly love and as a form of address (see Fritzner).
deyja ‘to die’
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1. deyja (verb; °deyr; dó, dó(u); dá(i)nn): die
vildi ‘wanted’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
Tvennar ‘two’
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tvennr (adj.): two
gieingu ‘passed’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
tvisvar ‘Two’
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tvisvar (adv.): [Two, twice]
sinnum ‘times’
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2. sinni (noun n.; °-s;): time, occasion; company, following
tíu ‘of ten’
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tíu (num. cardinal): ten
dægranna ‘days’
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dœgr (noun n.; °-s; -): day and night; 24h period
rásir ‘streams’
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rás (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): running, course, company
hægar ‘calm’
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1. hœgr (adj.; °acc. -an/-jan; comp. hǿgri, superl. hǿgstr/hǿgastr): convenient, calm, pleasant
[6] hægar: hægra 99a, 705ˣ
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
en ‘’
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4. en (conj.): than
upp ‘up’
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upp (adv.): up
yfir ‘over’
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yfir (prep.): over
himna ‘of the heavens’
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himinn (noun m.; °himins, dat. himni; himnar): heaven, sky < himnahæð (noun f.)
hæðir ‘the heights’
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hæð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): height < himnahæð (noun f.)
hæfi ‘would raise’
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hefja (verb): lift, start
[8] hæfi: hóf 99a, 622, 713, Vb, 41 8°ˣ, 705ˣ, 4892
notes
[8] hæfi ‘would raise’: The 3rd pers. sg. pres. subj. suggests that the poet regards the Ascension as a matter of belief rather than of historical certainty.
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[8] hann: það Vb, hann það 41 8°ˣ, 4892
blóð ‘the blood’
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blóð (noun n.; °-s): blood
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[8] blóð ‘blood’: A metonymy for the human body of Jesus. Cf. blóði Máriú ‘Mary’s blood’, used with the same meaning in 31/6, and hold og blóð, það er tókt af móður ‘flesh and blood, which you took from your mother’ 83/6.
það ‘’
[8] það: om. 622, 41 8°ˣ, hann Vb, 4892
tók ‘he took’
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2. taka (verb): take
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
móður ‘his mother’
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móðir (noun f.): mother
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Then rose goodness itself with victory from death on a Sunday and made known his immortality to many a man, though he had chosen to die [lit. wanted to die]. Two times two calm streams of ten days passed, before he would raise the blood, which he took from his mother, up over the heights of the heavens.
[1-2]: The Sunday Letter tradition represented by Leið celebrates Sunday as the day of the Resurrection; see especially Leið 31. — [5-6]: A reference to the forty days between the Resurrection and the Ascension of Jesus (Acts I.3).
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