Ólhv Thómdr 1III
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, Thómasdrápa 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 301.
Þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
fremisk ‘gain distinction’
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fremja (verb): advance, perform
þí ‘Thus’
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því (adv.): therefore, because
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
tíri ‘glory’
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tírr (noun m.; °-s): glory, honour
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
est ‘are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
næst ‘nearest’
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nærri (adj. comp.; °superl. nǽstr): near, nearer, next
guði ‘to God’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
hæstum ‘the highest’
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hœgri (adj. comp.): higher, highest
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The author of FoGT gives this and the following stanza as examples of the rhetorical figure of apostrophe addressed to saints: Sama figvra er ok, ef maðr talar til heilagra manna, sem olafr qvað … ‘It is also the same figure, if one addresses saints, as Óláfr said …’
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