Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 575.
Eg veit, að ní neitar
Nytju logs, því er flytja
meiðar geirþings …,
Gunnr fjarðloga runni.
Eg veit, að {Gunnr {logs Nytju}} ní neitar {runni {fjarðloga}}, því er {… meiðar {geirþings}} flytja.
‘I know that the Gunnr <valkyrie> of the flame of Nytja <river> [GOLD > WOMAN] does not deny to the bush of the fjord-flame [GOLD > MAN] that for which the … trees of the spear-assembly [BATTLE > WARRIORS] plead.’
The fourth and final example of litotes in FoGT. The author prefaces his quotation of this example with: Stvndvm standa tvær neitingar fyrer einni iatan sem her ‘Sometimes two negations stand instead of one affirmation, as here’. Following the citation of the helmingr, the author explains: her seger skalldit, at konan sv er manni iataðiz fyrer flvtning fǫrvnavta sinna, neitaði ní ‘here the poet says that the woman who consented to the man on account of the pleading of his companions did not say no’.
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Eg veit, að ní neitar
Nytju lǫgs, því er flytja
meiðar geirþings …,
Gunnr fjarðloga runni.
Ek veit at ni neitar nytiv lǫgs þvi er flytia meiðar geirþings gunnr fiarðloga rvnni.
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