Ólsv Love 3III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Óláfr svartaskáld Leggsson, Love poem 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 318.
Kœnn ‘wise’
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2. kœnn (adj.; °superl. kǿnstr/kǿnastr): wise, skilful
njóti ‘enjoy’
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njóta (verb): enjoy, use
vel ‘well’
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vel (adv.): well, very
vænnar ‘fair’
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vænn (adj.): beautiful, expected
notes
[1, 2] vænnar konu sinnar ‘his fair wife’: Kona ‘wife’ can also mean ‘woman’, and the stanza may be deliberately ambiguous about the relationship between this man and the woman.
vinr ‘friend’
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vinr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/(-i OsvReyk 92.17); -ir): friend
[2] vinr: so W, vin A
minn ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
konu ‘wife’
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kona (noun f.; °-u; -ur/-r(KlmA1980 116¹¹), gen. pl. kvenna/kvinna): woman
notes
[1, 2] vænnar konu sinnar ‘his fair wife’: Kona ‘wife’ can also mean ‘woman’, and the stanza may be deliberately ambiguous about the relationship between this man and the woman.
sinnar ‘his’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
notes
[1, 2] vænnar konu sinnar ‘his fair wife’: Kona ‘wife’ can also mean ‘woman’, and the stanza may be deliberately ambiguous about the relationship between this man and the woman.
víst ‘indeed’
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1. víss (adj.): wise, certain(ly)
notes
[3-4] víst esat drengr dapr of drósir ‘indeed, the man is not downcast on account of women’: In an attempt to retain the W reading drósar f. gen. sg. ‘of the woman’, Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 100) tentatively suggests that the adv. víst ‘indeed’ could have been the noun vist ‘stay, visit’, which would yield the following reading: drengr esat dapr of vist drósar ‘the man is not downcast on account of the woman’s visit’.
notes
[3-4] víst esat drengr dapr of drósir ‘indeed, the man is not downcast on account of women’: In an attempt to retain the W reading drósar f. gen. sg. ‘of the woman’, Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 100) tentatively suggests that the adv. víst ‘indeed’ could have been the noun vist ‘stay, visit’, which would yield the following reading: drengr esat dapr of vist drósar ‘the man is not downcast on account of the woman’s visit’.
dapr ‘downcast’
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dapr (adj.): gloomy
notes
[3-4] víst esat drengr dapr of drósir ‘indeed, the man is not downcast on account of women’: In an attempt to retain the W reading drósar f. gen. sg. ‘of the woman’, Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 100) tentatively suggests that the adv. víst ‘indeed’ could have been the noun vist ‘stay, visit’, which would yield the following reading: drengr esat dapr of vist drósar ‘the man is not downcast on account of the woman’s visit’.
notes
[3-4] víst esat drengr dapr of drósir ‘indeed, the man is not downcast on account of women’: In an attempt to retain the W reading drósar f. gen. sg. ‘of the woman’, Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 100) tentatively suggests that the adv. víst ‘indeed’ could have been the noun vist ‘stay, visit’, which would yield the following reading: drengr esat dapr of vist drósar ‘the man is not downcast on account of the woman’s visit’.
notes
[3-4] víst esat drengr dapr of drósir ‘indeed, the man is not downcast on account of women’: In an attempt to retain the W reading drósar f. gen. sg. ‘of the woman’, Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 100) tentatively suggests that the adv. víst ‘indeed’ could have been the noun vist ‘stay, visit’, which would yield the following reading: drengr esat dapr of vist drósar ‘the man is not downcast on account of the woman’s visit’.
drengr ‘the man’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
notes
[3-4] víst esat drengr dapr of drósir ‘indeed, the man is not downcast on account of women’: In an attempt to retain the W reading drósar f. gen. sg. ‘of the woman’, Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 100) tentatively suggests that the adv. víst ‘indeed’ could have been the noun vist ‘stay, visit’, which would yield the following reading: drengr esat dapr of vist drósar ‘the man is not downcast on account of the woman’s visit’. — [4] drengr ‘the man’: It is not clear who the subject of this parenthetic clause is, and in Skj B Finnur Jónsson tentatively suggests that drengr could refer to the poet rather than to the poet’s friend: manden (jeg?) ‘the man (I?)’.
drengr ‘the man’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
notes
[3-4] víst esat drengr dapr of drósir ‘indeed, the man is not downcast on account of women’: In an attempt to retain the W reading drósar f. gen. sg. ‘of the woman’, Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 100) tentatively suggests that the adv. víst ‘indeed’ could have been the noun vist ‘stay, visit’, which would yield the following reading: drengr esat dapr of vist drósar ‘the man is not downcast on account of the woman’s visit’. — [4] drengr ‘the man’: It is not clear who the subject of this parenthetic clause is, and in Skj B Finnur Jónsson tentatively suggests that drengr could refer to the poet rather than to the poet’s friend: manden (jeg?) ‘the man (I?)’.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
notes
[4] ok eigi lengi ‘and keep [her] for a long time’: If this verb is taken as an adv. rather than as a verb (see Context above), the clause ok eigi lengi translates as ‘and not for a long time’. Cf. the almost similar ambiguity in Anon (TGT) 15.
eigi ‘keep [her]’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
notes
[4] ok eigi lengi ‘and keep [her] for a long time’: If this verb is taken as an adv. rather than as a verb (see Context above), the clause ok eigi lengi translates as ‘and not for a long time’. Cf. the almost similar ambiguity in Anon (TGT) 15.
lengi ‘for a long time’
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lengi (adv.): for a long time
notes
[4] ok eigi lengi ‘and keep [her] for a long time’: If this verb is taken as an adv. rather than as a verb (see Context above), the clause ok eigi lengi translates as ‘and not for a long time’. Cf. the almost similar ambiguity in Anon (TGT) 15.
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The half-stanza illustrates the rhetorical figure amphibologia, i.e. a word that could have more than one meaning. In the present stanza, this is illustrated by the word eigi (l. 4), which can be either 3rd pers. sg. pres. subj. of the verb eiga ‘have, keep, own’ or the adv. eigi ‘not’ (TGT 1927, 60): Hér er óvíst, hvárt þessi sǫgn, eigi, er viðrorð neitiligt eða orð eiginligt ‘Here it is uncertain whether this word, eigi, is a negative adverb or a real verb’ (see also Note to l. 4 below).
[1-2]: The lines are peculiar in that they contain an abundance of internal rhymes on vowels + <n> in fully stressed positions: ‑œnn : ‑ænn- (l. 1); ‑in- : ‑inn : ‑inn- (l. 2).
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