Anon Leið 5VII
Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Leiðarvísan 5’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 144-5.
Hljóð ‘a hearing’
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hljóð (noun n.; °-s; -): sound, silence, a hearing
hirði ‘guarding’
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hirða (verb): hide, care for < hirðimeiðr (noun m.)
kennings
Svinnir hirðimeiðar linns hræsunda‘May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels ’
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carrion-channels → BLOOD
the serpent of the BLOOD → SWORD
May the wise guarding-poles of the SWORD → MEN
meiðar ‘poles’
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meiðr (noun m.): beam, tree < hirðimeiðr (noun m.)
kennings
Svinnir hirðimeiðar linns hræsunda‘May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels ’
= MEN
carrion-channels → BLOOD
the serpent of the BLOOD → SWORD
May the wise guarding-poles of the SWORD → MEN
hræ ‘of carrion-’
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hræ (noun n.; °; -): corpse, carrion < hrælinnr (noun m.): corpse-snake
kennings
Svinnir hirðimeiðar linns hræsunda‘May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels ’
= MEN
carrion-channels → BLOOD
the serpent of the BLOOD → SWORD
May the wise guarding-poles of the SWORD → MEN
hræ ‘of carrion-’
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hræ (noun n.; °; -): corpse, carrion < hrælinnr (noun m.): corpse-snake
kennings
Svinnir hirðimeiðar linns hræsunda‘May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels ’
= MEN
carrion-channels → BLOOD
the serpent of the BLOOD → SWORD
May the wise guarding-poles of the SWORD → MEN
hræ ‘of carrion-’
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hræ (noun n.; °; -): corpse, carrion < hrælinnr (noun m.): corpse-snake
kennings
Svinnir hirðimeiðar linns hræsunda‘May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels ’
= MEN
carrion-channels → BLOOD
the serpent of the BLOOD → SWORD
May the wise guarding-poles of the SWORD → MEN
linns ‘of the serpent’
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linnr (noun m.): snake < hrælinnr (noun m.): corpse-snake
kennings
Svinnir hirðimeiðar linns hræsunda‘May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels ’
= MEN
carrion-channels → BLOOD
the serpent of the BLOOD → SWORD
May the wise guarding-poles of the SWORD → MEN
linns ‘of the serpent’
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linnr (noun m.): snake < hrælinnr (noun m.): corpse-snake
kennings
Svinnir hirðimeiðar linns hræsunda‘May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels ’
= MEN
carrion-channels → BLOOD
the serpent of the BLOOD → SWORD
May the wise guarding-poles of the SWORD → MEN
at ‘to’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
brag ‘the poem’
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bragr (noun m.; °-ar): poem, poetry
svinnir ‘the wise’
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2. svinnr (adj.): wise
kennings
Svinnir hirðimeiðar linns hræsunda‘May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels ’
= MEN
carrion-channels → BLOOD
the serpent of the BLOOD → SWORD
May the wise guarding-poles of the SWORD → MEN
gegn ‘the honest’
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1. gegn (adj.; °compar. -ri, superl. -astr/-str): reliable
vilk ‘I desire’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
þjóð ‘people’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
at ‘that’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
þagni ‘keep silence’
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þagna (verb): be silent
þá ‘while’
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2. þá (adv.): then
stund ‘’
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stund (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): time, hour
es ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
kveðk ‘I am reciting’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
sunda ‘channels’
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sund (noun n.; °-s; -): sound, strait; swimming
kennings
Svinnir hirðimeiðar linns hræsunda‘May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels ’
= MEN
carrion-channels → BLOOD
the serpent of the BLOOD → SWORD
May the wise guarding-poles of the SWORD → MEN
sunda ‘channels’
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sund (noun n.; °-s; -): sound, strait; swimming
kennings
Svinnir hirðimeiðar linns hræsunda‘May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels ’
= MEN
carrion-channels → BLOOD
the serpent of the BLOOD → SWORD
May the wise guarding-poles of the SWORD → MEN
sunda ‘channels’
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sund (noun n.; °-s; -): sound, strait; swimming
kennings
Svinnir hirðimeiðar linns hræsunda‘May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels ’
= MEN
carrion-channels → BLOOD
the serpent of the BLOOD → SWORD
May the wise guarding-poles of the SWORD → MEN
Vilk ‘I want’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
meðan ‘while’
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meðan (conj.): while
varrar ‘lips’
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2. vǫrr (noun f.): lip
telja ‘declaim’
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telja (verb): tell, count
veg ‘way’
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1. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar/-ir, gen. -a/-na, acc. -a/-i/-u): way, path, side < vegskrýðandi (noun m.)
kennings
vegskrýðendr‘way-adorners ’
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way-adorners → MEN
skrýðendr ‘adorners’
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skrýðandi (noun m.): [adorners] < vegskrýðandi (noun m.)
kennings
vegskrýðendr‘way-adorners ’
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way-adorners → MEN
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hlýði ‘should hear’
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hljóða (verb): listen, sound
frá ‘concerning’
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frá (prep.): from
dáð ‘of the deed’
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dáð (noun f.; °; -ir): feat, deed < dáðmáttugr (adj.)
môttugs ‘mighty’
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máttigr (adj.; °compar. -ari/-ri, superl. -astr): mighty < dáðmáttugr (adj.)
dróttins ‘Lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
degi ‘the day’
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dagr (noun m.; °-s, dat. degi/dag/dagi(Thom¹ 332¹n.); -ar): day
nǫkkur ‘some’
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nøkkurr (pron.): some, a certain
rǫk ‘lore’
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2. rak (noun n.; °; *-): omen, lore
segja ‘to utter’
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segja (verb): say, tell
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Hljóð gefi hirðimeiðar |
May the wise guarding-poles of the serpent of carrion-channels [BLOOD > SWORD > MEN] give a hearing to the poem; I desire that the honest people keep silence while I am reciting. I want, while my lips declaim, to utter some lore concerning the day of the deed-mighty Lord; way-adorners [MEN] should hear me.
[5-6]: To accommodate the emendation of vegskrýðendr described below under Note to l. 6, Finnur Jónsson construes varrar viggskrýðendr hlýði mér, meðan teljak ‘the adorners of the horse of the wash should hear me, while I recite’. Kock (NN §1259) objects to this, on the grounds that it is impossible to split the temporal cl. (meðan telja) with part of the subject of the main cl. (varrar). Instead, he prefers to preserve the ms. reading telja, which Finnur had emended, and to take varrar as nom. pl. of vǫrr f. ‘lip’, referring back to the lips first mentioned in 1/4. His reading is followed here. Sveinbjörn Egilsson, who first suggested the emendation to viggskrýðendr, also assumed varrar to be the subject of the temporal cl., giving the arrangement hlýði viggskrýðendr mér meðan [minnar] varrar telja ‘may horse-adorners [MEN] listen to me while [my] lips declaim’ (note to Sveinbjörn’s transcription of the 624 text in 444(3)ˣ).
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