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Anon (FoGT) 27III

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 27’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 604.

Anonymous LausavísurStanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise
262728

text and translation

Haki Kraki
hamdi framdi
geirum eirum
gotna flotna.
Hreytir neytir
hodda brodda
brendiz endiz
báli stáli.

Haki hamdi gotna geirum; Kraki framdi flotna eirum. {Hreytir hodda} brendiz báli; {neytir brodda} endiz stáli.
 
‘Haki killed men with spears; Kraki (‘Pole-ladder’) promoted men with mercy. The scatterer of hoards [GENEROUS MAN = Haki] was burnt on a pyre; the user of pikes [WARRIOR = Kraki] was killed by a steel weapon.

notes and context

As for sts 23-6. This stanza follows directly after st. 26 and offers a studied variation on st. 24.

This stanza should be compared and contrasted with st. 24. Both are in the same metre (inn nýi háttr). Minimal word changes between the two stanzas enable the poet to rearrange the syntax of st. 27’s four clauses, so that clause 1 reads straight down the left-hand side of ll. 1-4, clause 2 straight down the right-hand side of ll. 1-4, clause 3 straight down the left-hand side of ll. 5-8 and clause 4 straight down the right-hand side of ll. 5-8.

sources

Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], D. 3. Vers af den 4. grt. afhandling 21: AII, 218, BII, 235, Skald II, 122; SnE 1848-87, II, 226-7, III, 160, FoGT 1884, 138-9, 277-8, FoGT 2004, 47, 72, 135-6, FoGT 2014, 30-1, 112-13.

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