SnSt Frag 1III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Fragment from a religious 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. 375.
Byskup ‘Bishop’
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1. byskup (noun m.; °-s/-(cf. [$489$]), dat. -i/-; -ar): bishop
notes
[1] byskup ‘bishop’: The prose commentary supplies the name of the bishop, Guðmundr, i.e. Bishop Guðmundr Arason of Hólar (d. 16 March 1237).
heyr ‘listen’
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2. heyra (verb): hear
á ‘to’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
bæran ‘the appropriate’
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bærr (adj.): right, appropriate
bragþátt ‘strand of praise’
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bragþáttr (noun m.): strand of praise, poem
gǫfugs ‘of glorious’
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gǫfugr (adj.; °gǫfgan/gǫfugan; compar. gǫfgari/gǫfugri, superl. gǫfgastr/gǫfugstr/gǫfugastr): noble, glorious
notes
[2] gǫfugs máttar ‘of glorious power’: This epithet could qualify byskup ‘bishop’ (l. 1) (so SnE 1848-87), but Snorri could have used the phrase to extol the qualities of his own poetry rather than the power of Guðmundr (so Skj B and, apparently, Skald), whose grip on the see of Hólar was tenuous. Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 95, following Björn Magnússon Ólsen in TGT 1884, 184) later believed that the phrase qualified something mentioned in the next two, now lost lines, which is also possible.
máttar ‘power’
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máttr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. mǽtti/mátt; mǽttir, dat. -um): power
notes
[2] gǫfugs máttar ‘of glorious power’: This epithet could qualify byskup ‘bishop’ (l. 1) (so SnE 1848-87), but Snorri could have used the phrase to extol the qualities of his own poetry rather than the power of Guðmundr (so Skj B and, apparently, Skald), whose grip on the see of Hólar was tenuous. Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 95, following Björn Magnússon Ólsen in TGT 1884, 184) later believed that the phrase qualified something mentioned in the next two, now lost lines, which is also possible.
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The couplet is cited as an example of soloecismus, which is caused here by the use of the common noun byskup ‘bishop’ instead of the personal name of the bishop.
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