Anonymous Poems, Máríudrápa 13

Katrina Attwood

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Mdr 13^VII

Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríudrápa 13’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 489-90.

Anonymous Poems Máríudrápa

12 13 14

Hrein ‘Pure’

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2. hreinn (adj.; °compar. hreinari/hreinni, superl. hreinastr/hreinstr): pure

[1] Hrein: ‘’ corrected from ‘Heil’ in margin B

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[1] hrein fyld: B’s scribe originally wrote ‘Heil’ (probably the result of confusion with st. 14), but corrected this in the margin to ‘Hrein’. Finnur Jónsson emends to Fylld er in Skj B, doubtless to regularise the metre.

fyld ‘filled’

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fylla (verb): fill

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[2] andvarpa: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘andu[...]pa’ B

… ‘…’

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(non-lexical)

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[2] …: B is illegible. Sveinbjörn Egilsson (n. to 444ˣ transcript) suggests emendation to sjúkir (m. nom. pl.) ‘sick’ construed with gumnar ‘men’, which suggestion was also made in a private communication from Finnur Jónsson to Rydberg. Skj B, however, does not attempt to reconstruct the l., while Skald reads sjúkum.

til ‘for’

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til (prep.): to

[3] til þín: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘[...]ín’ B

þín ‘you’

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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you

[3] til þín: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘[...]ín’ B

lýðs ‘of people’

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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people

[3] lýðs: lýðr B

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[3] lýðs á láði: B’s reading, lýðr á láði, is possibly contaminated by Leið 30/7. The phrase also occurs at Leið 18/1, where the prep. is af. In each case, the phrase occupies the second part of the odd l. of the couplet and supplies the two alliterating stresses. Skj B retains lýðr.

á ‘on’

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3. á (prep.): on, at

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láði ‘earth’

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2. láð (noun n.): earth, land

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lífs ‘life’

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líf (noun n.; °-s; -): life < lífsvegr (noun m.)

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[4] lífsvegr ‘life-path’: Here interpreted with lýðs ‘of people’ as a kenning-like epithet for Mary. Skj B construes lífs vegr as ‘life’s honour’.

vegr ‘path’

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1. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar/-ir, gen. -a/-na, acc. -a/-i/-u): way, path, side < lífsvegr (noun m.)

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[4] lífsvegr ‘life-path’: Here interpreted with lýðs ‘of people’ as a kenning-like epithet for Mary. Skj B construes lífs vegr as ‘life’s honour’.

gumnar ‘men’

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gumi (noun m.; °-a; gumar/gumnar): man

fegnir ‘joyful’

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2. feginn (adj.; °compar. fegnari, superl. fegnastr): glad, happy

Döggva ‘bedew’

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dǫggva (verb; °-að-): bedew, be sprinkled

drottning ‘queen’

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dróttning (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-, acc. -u/-; -ar): queen

kennings

Dáðvís drottning seggja,
‘Deed-wise queen of men, ’
= Mary
Deed-wise queen of men, → Mary

seggja ‘of men’

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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man

kennings

Dáðvís drottning seggja,
‘Deed-wise queen of men, ’
= Mary
Deed-wise queen of men, → Mary

dáð ‘Deed’

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dáð (noun f.; °; -ir): feat, deed < dáðvíss (adj.)

kennings

Dáðvís drottning seggja,
‘Deed-wise queen of men, ’
= Mary
Deed-wise queen of men, → Mary

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[6] dáðvís paradísar: The vís : paradís rhyme is also exploited in Has 24/6 and Lil 13/4. It is uncertain how paradísar ‘of Paradise’ should be construed here: it could form a Mary-kenning (so Attwood 1996a, 324), dáðvís drottning paradísar ‘deed-wise queen of Paradise [= Mary]’, but that would leave seggja without obvious connections. The rest of the st. is too fragmentary to allow further speculation.

vís ‘wise’

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1. víss (adj.): wise, certain(ly) < dáðvíss (adj.)

kennings

Dáðvís drottning seggja,
‘Deed-wise queen of men, ’
= Mary
Deed-wise queen of men, → Mary

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paradísar ‘of Paradise’

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paradís (noun f.; °-ar): paradise

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…eps ‘…’

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(unknown)

[7] …eps: ‘[...]l(æ)ps’(?) BRydberg

að ‘to’

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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)

geyma ‘heed’

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geyma (verb): heed, guard

gamals ‘old’

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gamall (adj.; °gamlan; compar. & superl. ellri adj.): old

þó ‘though’

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þó (adv.): though

að ‘’

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4. at (conj.): that

djöflar ‘devils’

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djǫfull (noun m.; °djǫfuls, dat. djǫfli; djǫflar/djaflar): devil

[8] djöflar hamli: ‘‑lar hamle’ added in margin B

hamli ‘may wound’

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4. hamla (verb): [may wound]

[8] djöflar hamli: ‘‑lar hamle’ added in margin B

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B is badly damaged, so earlier transcripts have been consulted to make some sense of the text, including Jón Sigurðsson’s readings in the 444ˣ transcript, and Sveinbjörn Egilsson’s emendation, suggested in a n. to that transcript, to lýðs in l. 3. Both Rydberg and Kock (NN §2674) engage in wholesale reconstruction.

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Anon Mdr 13VII

Hrein ‘Pure’

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fyld ‘filled’

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Máría ‘Mary’

mildi ‘with grace’

mjúk ‘gentle’

andvarpa ‘weep’

… ‘…’

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til ‘for’

þín ‘you’

lýðs ‘of people’

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á ‘on’

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láði ‘earth’

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lífs ‘life’

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vegr ‘path’

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gumnar ‘men’

fegnir ‘joyful’

Döggva ‘bedew’

drottning ‘queen’

kennings

seggja ‘of men’

kennings

dáð ‘Deed’

kennings

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vís ‘wise’

kennings

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paradísar ‘of Paradise’

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…eps ‘…’

að ‘to’

geyma ‘heed’

gamals ‘old’

þó ‘though’

að ‘’

djöflar ‘devils’

hamli ‘may wound’

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Anon Mdr 13^VII