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Ólsv Love 1III

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Óláfr svartaskáld Leggsson, Love poem 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. 317.

Óláfr svartaskáld LeggssonLove poem
12

text and translation

Freyju angan leygjar.

Angan Freyju leygjar.
 
‘The delight of the Freyja <goddess> of the flame.

notes and context

The line is cited to illustrate jotacismus, when the glide [j] stands before, after or between vowels.

The translation given above is conjectural, but it is essentially the same as the one proposed in SnE 1848-87, II, 109: Deliciæ Freyæ, ignis. Freyju must be the base-word in a kenning for ‘woman’, and leygjar ‘of the flame’ is most likely to be a part of the determinant. Leygr can also mean ‘sea’, however, and because of the lack of context it is impossible to determine which meaning the word has here. Following Kock (NN §1334), angan is taken here in the sense ‘delight’, as in Vsp 53/7-8 (NK 12): þá mun Friggiar | falla angan ‘then the delight of Frigg [= Óðinn] will fall’. It is also possible that angan is an oblique form of the weak m. noun angi ‘fragrant odour’ (with a cliticised def. art.), although that would entail adopting the W variant angann (m. nom./acc. sg.). Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 94) tentatively suggests ‘det står duft (angan) ud fra kvinden’ ‘fragrant odour (angan) radiates from the woman’. In Skj B he does not attempt a translation, but merely states Er usammenhængende ‘Is fragmentary’.

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Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Óláfr Leggsson, svartaskáld, 4. Af et kærlighedsdigt (?) 1: AII, 85, BII, 97, Skald II, 52, NN §1334; SnE 1848-87, II, 108-9, TGT 1884, 15, 70, TGT 1927, 48, 94.

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