Máni Lv 5III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Máni, Lausavísa 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 290.
Hvat ‘What’
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hvat (pron.): what
munt ‘will you’
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munu (verb): will, must
hafs ‘of the ocean’
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haf (noun n.; °-s; *-): sea
kennings
otri hafs,‘the otter of the ocean, ’
= SHIP
the otter of the ocean, → SHIP
notes
[1] á otri hafs ‘on the otter of the ocean [SHIP]’: The last word in l. 1 is partly erased in R, and the U reading, akri ‘cultivated field’, makes no sense in the context.
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
notes
[1] á otri hafs ‘on the otter of the ocean [SHIP]’: The last word in l. 1 is partly erased in R, and the U reading, akri ‘cultivated field’, makes no sense in the context.
otri ‘the otter’
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otr (noun m.; °; otrar): otter
[1] otri: so Tˣ, W, A, 2368ˣ, 743ˣ, ‘[…]ri’ R, akri U
kennings
otri hafs,‘the otter of the ocean, ’
= SHIP
the otter of the ocean, → SHIP
notes
[1] á otri hafs ‘on the otter of the ocean [SHIP]’: The last word in l. 1 is partly erased in R, and the U reading, akri ‘cultivated field’, makes no sense in the context.
hengiligr ‘slouching’
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hengiligr (adj.): [slouching]
með ‘among’
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með (prep.): with
drengjum ‘the young men’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
[2] drengjum: so all others, drengum R
notes
[2] drengjum ‘the young men’: Drengr is taken here in the meaning ‘young man’ as juxtaposed to the slouching old man with a grey beard. For the different meanings of drengr, see Goetting (2006). The R variant, drengum, presupposes that the word was inflected as an a-stem rather than an i-stem here, which is unusual but not impossible (see ANG §389 Anm. 4).
karl ‘fellow’
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karl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): (old) man
kraptr ‘strength’
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1. kraftr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/- ; -ar): power
þinn ‘your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
fǫrlask ‘is waning’
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fǫrla (verb): [is waning]
notes
[3] fǫrlask ‘is waning’: This weak verb is derived from the noun fǫr f. ‘travel, journey’ (see AEW: fǫr).
kinngrár ‘grey-cheeked’
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kinngrár (adj.): [grey-cheeked]
mega ‘be able’
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mega (verb): may, might
vinna ‘to accomplish’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
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In Skm and LaufE, otr hafs ‘otter of the ocean’ is given among the kennings for ‘ship’ in which an animal is the base-word. In TGT, hengiligr ‘slouching’ and kinngrár ‘grey-cheeked’ are used to illustrate a series of adjectives joined together without the connective ‘and’ (asyndeton, ON klauf ‘cleft’).
The circumstances in which this lausavísa was composed are not clear, but the sarcastic tone is characteristic of Máni’s poetry (see Máni Lv 2-3II).
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