Ólsv Love 2III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Óláfr svartaskáld Leggsson, Love poem 2’ 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.
Hǫg ‘The accomplished’
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2. hagr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): skilful
kennings
Hǫg hlaðnorn‘The accomplished norn of the headband ’
= WOMAN
The accomplished norn of the headband → WOMAN
notes
[1] leit ‘looked’: All mss have lét, 3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of the verb láta ‘let, leave, lose, say, sound’, which makes little sense here, and the emendation is in keeping with earlier eds.
hvarma ‘of eyelids’
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hvarmr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): eyelid
kennings
stjǫrnum skógar hvarma‘with her stars of the forest of eyelids. ’
= EYES
the forest of eyelids. → EYELASHES
with her stars of EYELASHES → EYES
hvarma ‘of eyelids’
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hvarmr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): eyelid
kennings
stjǫrnum skógar hvarma‘with her stars of the forest of eyelids. ’
= EYES
the forest of eyelids. → EYELASHES
with her stars of EYELASHES → EYES
skógar ‘of the forest’
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skógr (noun m.; °-ar/-s, dat. -i; -ar): forest
kennings
stjǫrnum skógar hvarma‘with her stars of the forest of eyelids. ’
= EYES
the forest of eyelids. → EYELASHES
with her stars of EYELASHES → EYES
skógar ‘of the forest’
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skógr (noun m.; °-ar/-s, dat. -i; -ar): forest
kennings
stjǫrnum skógar hvarma‘with her stars of the forest of eyelids. ’
= EYES
the forest of eyelids. → EYELASHES
with her stars of EYELASHES → EYES
hlað ‘ of the headband’
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hlað (noun n.; °-s; *-): headband < hlaðnorn (noun f.)
kennings
Hǫg hlaðnorn‘The accomplished norn of the headband ’
= WOMAN
The accomplished norn of the headband → WOMAN
norn ‘norn’
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norn (noun f.; °; -ir): norn < hlaðnorn (noun f.)
[2] ‑norn: ‘tiorn’ 2368ˣ, ‘‑tiǫrn’ 743ˣ
kennings
Hǫg hlaðnorn‘The accomplished norn of the headband ’
= WOMAN
The accomplished norn of the headband → WOMAN
notes
[2] -norn ‘norn’: A minor female deity of fate in Old Norse myth.
við ‘at’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
stjǫrnum ‘with her stars’
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stjarna (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): star
[2] stjǫrnum: ‘stiórnu’ 2368ˣ, ‘stiǫrnu’ 743ˣ
kennings
stjǫrnum skógar hvarma‘with her stars of the forest of eyelids. ’
= EYES
the forest of eyelids. → EYELASHES
with her stars of EYELASHES → EYES
Interactive view: tap on words in the text for notes and glosses
In W the couplet is cited as an example of kennings for ‘eyelash’ (hrís eða gras hvarma ęða avgna ‘brush or grass of the eyelids or of the eyes’), and in LaufE it illustrates kennings for ‘eye’.
[2]: The line has skothending rather than aðalhending, and the scribes of the LaufE mss attempted to remedy that by replacing ‑norn with ‑tjǫrn ‘pool’ (so 743ˣ; the 2368ˣ variants, ‘tiorn’ rhyming with ‘stiórnu’, are difficult to make sense of).
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