Anon (FoGT) 9III
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 583.
text and translation
Mari sendu vers vinda
veitendr Góins leita.
{Veitendr {leita Góins}} sendu {mari vers} vinda.
‘The givers of the mounds of Góinn <serpent> [GOLD > GENEROUS MEN] sent winds to the horse of the sea [SHIP].’
notes and context
This couplet follows straight after st. 8, introduced with the words ok í oðrvm stað er sama figvra ‘and in another place there is the same figure’. After the couplet the following explanation ensues: Her er sagt at vindarner væri sender skipínv, þar sem at rettv var skipit sent vindvnvm, þat er at skilia út sett iþeirra valld ęðr stíorn ‘Here it is said that the winds were sent to the ship, whereas rightly the ship was sent to the winds, that is to be understood as placed in their power or control’.
This couplet and that following were clearly produced by the author of FoGT (or by someone else at his request) to provide Icelandic examples of hypallage, a figure that is rare or absent in skaldic poetry. Évrard of Béthune’s Graecismus (Wrobel 1887, 5, l. 39) offers the example trade rati ventos ‘give winds to the boat’, and a similarly nautical example appears in Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae (Isidore, Etym. 1.36.22), dare classibus Austros ‘to give south winds to the fleets’ (Virgil Aeneid III, 61).
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