Anon Lil 9VII
Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Lilja 9’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 571-2.
Svá ‘So’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
greinanda ‘to tell’
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greina (verb): explain, divide
[1] greinanda: greinandi 99a, 622, Vb, 41 8°ˣ, 4892
í ‘’
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í (prep.): in, into
samri ‘the very’
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samr (adj.; °compar. -ari): same
[1] samri: so 99a, 622, 713, Vb, 41 8°ˣ, 705ˣ, 4892, sömu Bb
stundu ‘moment’
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stund (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): time, hour
sem ‘when’
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sem (conj.): as, which
eingillinn ‘the angel’
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1. engill (noun m.; °engils; englar): angel
tók ‘began’
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2. taka (verb): take
að ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
spillaz ‘destroy himself’
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spilla (verb): destroy
söktiz ‘sank down’
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2. søkkva (verb): sink, weak trans.
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
sínum ‘his’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
grönnum ‘comrades’
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granni (noun m.; °-a; -ar): neighbour, comrade
[3] grönnum: gronnuz 622
sem ‘like’
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sem (conj.): as, which
blý ‘a plumb’
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blý (noun n.; °-s): lead < blývarða (noun f.)
notes
[4] blývarða (hap. leg.) ‘plumb bob’: An echo of Exod. XV.10, which describes the fate of Pharaoh’s army pursuing the Israelites into the Red Sea: submersi sunt quasi plumbum in aquis vehementibus ‘they sunk as lead in the mighty waters’.
varða ‘bob’
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1. varða (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): [bob, cairns] < blývarða (noun f.)
í ‘into’
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í (prep.): in, into
djúpleik ‘the depth’
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djúpleikr (noun m.; °dat. -): [depth]
jarðar ‘of the earth’
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jǫrð (noun f.; °jarðar, dat. -u; jarðir/jarðar(DN I (1367) 304)): ground, earth
notes
[5-6] feikt ofbeldið kvelr blindan föðr sinn fjandann ‘terrible pride torments her blind father, the fiend’: Cf. John VIII.44, where the devil is called ‘Father of Lies’. Medieval authors use such analogous epithets as pater superbiae ‘Father of Pride’ and pater invidiae ‘Father of Envy’. Cf. 7/7 and 79/2.
blindan ‘blind’
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blindr (adj.; °compar. -ari): blind
fann ‘’
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2. finna (verb): find, meet
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[5-6] feikt ofbeldið kvelr blindan föðr sinn fjandann ‘terrible pride torments her blind father, the fiend’: Cf. John VIII.44, where the devil is called ‘Father of Lies’. Medieval authors use such analogous epithets as pater superbiae ‘Father of Pride’ and pater invidiae ‘Father of Envy’. Cf. 7/7 and 79/2.
föður ‘father’
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faðir (noun m.): father
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[5-6] feikt ofbeldið kvelr blindan föðr sinn fjandann ‘terrible pride torments her blind father, the fiend’: Cf. John VIII.44, where the devil is called ‘Father of Lies’. Medieval authors use such analogous epithets as pater superbiae ‘Father of Pride’ and pater invidiae ‘Father of Envy’. Cf. 7/7 and 79/2.
sinn ‘her’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
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[5-6] feikt ofbeldið kvelr blindan föðr sinn fjandann ‘terrible pride torments her blind father, the fiend’: Cf. John VIII.44, where the devil is called ‘Father of Lies’. Medieval authors use such analogous epithets as pater superbiae ‘Father of Pride’ and pater invidiae ‘Father of Envy’. Cf. 7/7 and 79/2.
fjandann ‘the fiend’
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fjándi (noun m.; °-a; fjándr/fjándar/fjándir): enemy, devil
[5] fjandann: fjanda 99a
notes
[5-6] feikt ofbeldið kvelr blindan föðr sinn fjandann ‘terrible pride torments her blind father, the fiend’: Cf. John VIII.44, where the devil is called ‘Father of Lies’. Medieval authors use such analogous epithets as pater superbiae ‘Father of Pride’ and pater invidiae ‘Father of Envy’. Cf. 7/7 and 79/2. — [6] feikt (n. sg. nom.) ‘terrible, deadly’: Bb has the reduced form of the adj. feikn, viz. feikr, where the middle one of three consonants disappears (ANG §291, 9).
fjandann ‘the fiend’
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fjándi (noun m.; °-a; fjándr/fjándar/fjándir): enemy, devil
[5] fjandann: fjanda 99a
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[5-6] feikt ofbeldið kvelr blindan föðr sinn fjandann ‘terrible pride torments her blind father, the fiend’: Cf. John VIII.44, where the devil is called ‘Father of Lies’. Medieval authors use such analogous epithets as pater superbiae ‘Father of Pride’ and pater invidiae ‘Father of Envy’. Cf. 7/7 and 79/2. — [6] feikt (n. sg. nom.) ‘terrible, deadly’: Bb has the reduced form of the adj. feikn, viz. feikr, where the middle one of three consonants disappears (ANG §291, 9).
feikn ‘’
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2. feikn (adj.): terrible
feikt ‘terrible’
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feigr (adj.; °compar. -ari/ri): fated to die, fey, dead
[6] feikt: er feikn 99a, feikið 622, feikna Vb, 41 8°ˣ, 4892, feikn 705ˣ
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[5-6] feikt ofbeldið kvelr blindan föðr sinn fjandann ‘terrible pride torments her blind father, the fiend’: Cf. John VIII.44, where the devil is called ‘Father of Lies’. Medieval authors use such analogous epithets as pater superbiae ‘Father of Pride’ and pater invidiae ‘Father of Envy’. Cf. 7/7 and 79/2.
of ‘’
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of- ((prefix)): too much < ofbeldi (noun n.): pride
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[5-6] feikt ofbeldið kvelr blindan föðr sinn fjandann ‘terrible pride torments her blind father, the fiend’: Cf. John VIII.44, where the devil is called ‘Father of Lies’. Medieval authors use such analogous epithets as pater superbiae ‘Father of Pride’ and pater invidiae ‘Father of Envy’. Cf. 7/7 and 79/2.
beldið ‘pride’
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beldi (noun n.): [pride] < ofbeldi (noun n.): pride
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[5-6] feikt ofbeldið kvelr blindan föðr sinn fjandann ‘terrible pride torments her blind father, the fiend’: Cf. John VIII.44, where the devil is called ‘Father of Lies’. Medieval authors use such analogous epithets as pater superbiae ‘Father of Pride’ and pater invidiae ‘Father of Envy’. Cf. 7/7 and 79/2.
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
eldi ‘fire’
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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire
fá ‘ignorant’
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3. fár (adj.; °compar. fǽrri/fárri(Mág² 11), superl. fǽstr): few < fávíss (adj.)
[7] fávíss: í fávíss 99a
sá ‘he’
[7] sá: en 4892
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
[7] er: so 713, eð Bb, om. 99a, 705ˣ, að 622, Vb, 41 8°ˣ, 4892
notes
[7] feðgin ‘father and daughter’: JH argues that although in early ON the word can also mean ‘parents’, it must here mean ‘father and daughter’, as it does in later Icel. Although the personified noun denoting the daughter, ofbeldið (l. 6), is grammatically n., he presumes that the poet has the Lat. f. noun superbia in mind (but cf. 18/8, where feðgin refers to Adam and Eve, the parents of humankind). Finnur Jónsson’s translation (Skj B) moder og søn ‘mother and son’ is a careless error (JH). Mich tells the story of Lucifer and his daughter named Drambsemi ‘Pride’: for hann til ok horaðiz gerandi ser dottur, er dramsemi heitir æ siðan … Þvilika framfærslu feck dramsemi feðr sinum, at hon fletti hann or himnarikis fegrð ok setti niðr i diupp helvitis til endalausrar pislar. ‘he [Lucifer] went there and whored, creating a daughter for himself, who ever since has been called Pride … Pride obtained such support for her father, in that she stripped him of the beauty of heaven and put him down in the depth of hell for endless torment’ (Unger 1877, I, 677-8; for a discussion of the background and possible sources of this text, see Fell 1965). Book I of the Revelaciones of S. Birgitta has a chapter ‘regarding two ladies, one of whom was called Pride and the other Humility’ (de duabus dominis, quarum una nominabatur Superbia et altera Humilitas). The Virgin Mary, as Humility, tells Birgitta that Super primam est dominus ipse diabolus, quia sibi dominatur ‘the devil is master of the first lady [Superbia] because he has dominion over her’ (Revelaciones 1.29 in Searby 2006, 101; Undhagen and Jönsson 1977-2001, I, 324). See Bloomfield 1952, 183 on the motif in C14th English literature.
feðgin ‘father and daughter’
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feðgin (noun n.): parents, father and daughter
faðma ‘to embrace’
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faðma (verb; °-að-): embrace
vill ‘wants’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
siðunum ‘his morals’
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siðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/-i; -ir, acc. -u): faith, morals
[8] siðunum: siðum 4892
spilla ‘destroy’
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spilla (verb): destroy
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So it is to tell at the very moment when the angel began to destroy himself, he sank down like a plumb bob with his comrades into the depth of the earth, where terrible pride torments her blind father, the fiend, in fire; ignorant is he who wants to embrace this father and daughter and destroy his morals.
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