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.
Haki ‘Haki’
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Haki (noun m.): Haki
Kraki ‘Kraki (‘Pole-ladder’)’
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Kraki (noun m.; °-a; -ar): pole-ladder, Kraki
hamdi ‘killed’
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hemja (verb): [killed]
notes
[2] hamdi ‘killed’: Lit. ‘restricted’.
framdi ‘promoted’
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fremja (verb): advance, perform
geirum ‘with spears’
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geirr (noun m.): spear
eirum ‘with mercy’
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eir (noun f.): mercy
notes
[3] eirum ‘with mercy’: Lit. ‘with mercies’. The unusual use of the pl. is doubtless to provide the necessary internal rhyme with geirum ‘with spears’.
gotna ‘men’
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gotnar (noun m.): men
flotna ‘men’
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flotnar (noun m.): mariners
Hreytir ‘The scatterer’
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hreytir (noun m.): flinger
kennings
Hreytir hodda‘The scatterer of hoards ’
= GENEROUS MAN = Haki
The scatterer of hoards → GENEROUS MAN = Haki
neytir ‘the user’
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neytir (noun m.): user
kennings
neytir brodda‘the user of pikes ’
= WARRIOR = Kraki
the user of pikes → WARRIOR = Kraki
hodda ‘of hoards’
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1. hodd (noun f.): gold, treasure
kennings
Hreytir hodda‘The scatterer of hoards ’
= GENEROUS MAN = Haki
The scatterer of hoards → GENEROUS MAN = Haki
brodda ‘of pikes’
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broddr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): point of spear or arrow
kennings
neytir brodda‘the user of pikes ’
= WARRIOR = Kraki
the user of pikes → WARRIOR = Kraki
brendiz ‘was burnt’
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3. brenna (verb; (weak, transitive)): to burn (weak, intr.)
endiz ‘was killed’
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1. enda (verb; °-að-): end, last
báli ‘on a pyre’
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bál (noun n.; °-s; -): fire
stáli ‘by a steel weapon’
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1. stál (noun n.; °-s; -): steel, weapon, prow
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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.
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