Sjórs Lv 2II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sigurðr jórsalafari Magnússon, Lausavísur 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 467-8.
vísdóm ‘wisdom’
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vísdómr (noun m.): wisdom
notes
[1] allan vísdóm ‘all wisdom’: Vísdóm ‘wisdom’ refers to clerical learning here, because Sigurðr and his men are unable to perform evensong.
allan ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
notes
[1] allan vísdóm ‘all wisdom’: Vísdóm ‘wisdom’ refers to clerical learning here, because Sigurðr and his men are unable to perform evensong.
veldr ‘causes’
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valda (verb): cause
karl ‘the man’
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karl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): (old) man
notes
[2] karl í feldi ‘the man in the cloak’: This could be a veiled reference to Óðinn, who frequently appears in a cloak when in disguise (e.g. in Grí 1 and prose; NK 57) and is often referred to as karl ‘(old) man’ (see Hárb 2, Reg 18/5, NK 78, 178, and LP: karl 2). If so, the sense would be that the devil (or his avatar, the heathen god) causes the men’s drunken inability to perform the Christian ritual.
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
notes
[2] karl í feldi ‘the man in the cloak’: This could be a veiled reference to Óðinn, who frequently appears in a cloak when in disguise (e.g. in Grí 1 and prose; NK 57) and is often referred to as karl ‘(old) man’ (see Hárb 2, Reg 18/5, NK 78, 178, and LP: karl 2). If so, the sense would be that the devil (or his avatar, the heathen god) causes the men’s drunken inability to perform the Christian ritual.
notes
[2] karl í feldi ‘the man in the cloak’: This could be a veiled reference to Óðinn, who frequently appears in a cloak when in disguise (e.g. in Grí 1 and prose; NK 57) and is often referred to as karl ‘(old) man’ (see Hárb 2, Reg 18/5, NK 78, 178, and LP: karl 2). If so, the sense would be that the devil (or his avatar, the heathen god) causes the men’s drunken inability to perform the Christian ritual.
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Sigurðr and his retinue are sitting outside a church during vespers, drunk and merry and unable to sing evensong properly. The king sees a man in a short cloak standing by the church, and he recites the following couplet.
The man in the cloak (see Context) is Þórarinn stuttfeldr ‘Short-cloak’ (Þstf). See Þstf Lv 1-3.
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