Anon Mdr 31VII
Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríudrápa 31’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 503-4.
Upp ‘up’
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upp (adv.): up
nam ‘took’
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1. nema (verb): to take
þú ‘You’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
hjálp ‘help’
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hjǫlp (noun f.; °hjalpar; hjalpir/hjalpar): help, salvation
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
höppum ‘good fortune’
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happ (noun n.; °-s; *-): fortune, luck
háva ‘high’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
dýrð ‘glory’
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dýrð (noun f.; °-ar/-a(NoDipl(1279) 44²); -ir): glory
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
ást ‘beloved’
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ást (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): love
vár ‘our’
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várr (pron.; °f. ór/vár; pl. órir/várir): our
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
kær ‘dear’
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kærr (adj.; °superl. kǽrstr/kǽrastr): dear
Kristi ‘to Christ’
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Kristr (noun m.; °-s/-, dat. -i; -ar): Christ
kunn ‘known’
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kunnr (adj.): known (?)
[4] kunn af Gabríels: ‘kunn[...]g[...]s’ B, BFJ, ‘kunnịg̣ gabriels’ with ‘kunn af gabriels’ in margin 399a‑bˣ, ‘kunn [...] g(a)[...]s’(?) BRydberg
notes
[4] kunn af Gabríels munni ‘known from Gabriel’s mouth’: It is clear from the Lat. text (see Note to ll. 1-4) that this phrase qualifies áve not, as Finnur Jónsson and Kock understand it, the vocatives ást vár og kær Kristi (l. 3). Kunn must be taken as n. acc. pl., qualifying not only the f. nouns dýrð ‘glory’ and hjálp ‘help’, but also áve, which must be taken to be n. in Icel., as in Lat.
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
[4] kunn af Gabríels: ‘kunn[...]g[...]s’ B, BFJ, ‘kunnịg̣ gabriels’ with ‘kunn af gabriels’ in margin 399a‑bˣ, ‘kunn [...] g(a)[...]s’(?) BRydberg
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[4] kunn af Gabríels munni ‘known from Gabriel’s mouth’: It is clear from the Lat. text (see Note to ll. 1-4) that this phrase qualifies áve not, as Finnur Jónsson and Kock understand it, the vocatives ást vár og kær Kristi (l. 3). Kunn must be taken as n. acc. pl., qualifying not only the f. nouns dýrð ‘glory’ and hjálp ‘help’, but also áve, which must be taken to be n. in Icel., as in Lat.
Gabríels ‘Gabriel’s’
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Gabríel (noun m.): [Gabriel]
[4] kunn af Gabríels: ‘kunn[...]g[...]s’ B, BFJ, ‘kunnịg̣ gabriels’ with ‘kunn af gabriels’ in margin 399a‑bˣ, ‘kunn [...] g(a)[...]s’(?) BRydberg
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[4] Gabríels: Here, but not in st. 25/8, where stress is on the last syllable (Gabriél), the name is treated as disyllabic, with neutralisation in position 4, so –íels. — [4] kunn af Gabríels munni ‘known from Gabriel’s mouth’: It is clear from the Lat. text (see Note to ll. 1-4) that this phrase qualifies áve not, as Finnur Jónsson and Kock understand it, the vocatives ást vár og kær Kristi (l. 3). Kunn must be taken as n. acc. pl., qualifying not only the f. nouns dýrð ‘glory’ and hjálp ‘help’, but also áve, which must be taken to be n. in Icel., as in Lat.
Gabríels ‘Gabriel’s’
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Gabríel (noun m.): [Gabriel]
[4] kunn af Gabríels: ‘kunn[...]g[...]s’ B, BFJ, ‘kunnịg̣ gabriels’ with ‘kunn af gabriels’ in margin 399a‑bˣ, ‘kunn [...] g(a)[...]s’(?) BRydberg
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[4] Gabríels: Here, but not in st. 25/8, where stress is on the last syllable (Gabriél), the name is treated as disyllabic, with neutralisation in position 4, so –íels. — [4] kunn af Gabríels munni ‘known from Gabriel’s mouth’: It is clear from the Lat. text (see Note to ll. 1-4) that this phrase qualifies áve not, as Finnur Jónsson and Kock understand it, the vocatives ást vár og kær Kristi (l. 3). Kunn must be taken as n. acc. pl., qualifying not only the f. nouns dýrð ‘glory’ and hjálp ‘help’, but also áve, which must be taken to be n. in Icel., as in Lat.
munni ‘mouth’
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munnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): mouth
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[4] kunn af Gabríels munni ‘known from Gabriel’s mouth’: It is clear from the Lat. text (see Note to ll. 1-4) that this phrase qualifies áve not, as Finnur Jónsson and Kock understand it, the vocatives ást vár og kær Kristi (l. 3). Kunn must be taken as n. acc. pl., qualifying not only the f. nouns dýrð ‘glory’ and hjálp ‘help’, but also áve, which must be taken to be n. in Icel., as in Lat.
Í ‘In’
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í (prep.): in, into
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[5]: The l. is hypometrical.
friði ‘peace’
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friðr (noun m.): peace
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[5]: The l. is hypometrical.
guðs ‘God’s’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
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[5]: The l. is hypometrical.
góðum ‘good’
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góðr (adj.): good
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[5]: The l. is hypometrical.
grund ‘the foundation’
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grund (noun f.): earth, land < grundvǫllr (noun m.): foundation
ertu ‘you are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
sprunda ‘of women’
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sprund (noun f.): woman
nafn ‘the name’
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nafn (noun n.; °-s; *-): name
skiptandi ‘changing’
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skipta (verb): share, divide, exchange
að ‘’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
Éva ‘Eva’
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Eva (noun f.): [Eve, Eva]
funnið ‘’
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2. finna (verb): find, meet
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[1-4]: This helmingr translates and expands the first two ll. of the second verse of Ave maris stella: Sumens illud ave / Gabrielis ore ‘taking up that Ave (‘Hail’) from Gabriel’s mouth’, a reference to Gabriel’s salutation of Mary at the Annunciation, related in Luke I.28. As Schottmann remarks (1973, 67 n. 5), both Kock (NN §3353) and the Skj translation completely misunderstand that nam upp must refer to all three noun objects of the cl. Elsewhere Kock (NN §2856) suggests that háva dýrð og áve ‘high glory and the Ave’ should be taken as vocative, in apposition to ást vár og kær Kristi ‘our beloved and dear to Christ’ (l. 3), but this is clearly wrong in light of the Lat. text. — [5-8]: These ll. should correspond to ll. 3-4 of the second verse of Ave maris stella: funda nos in pace, / mutans nomen Evae ‘establish us in peace, changing the name of Eve’, the last l. being a reference to Mary as the antitype of Eve, signalled by the spelling inversion of Eva as Ave. Lines 7-8 of the Icel. text clearly attempt a rendition of mutans nomen Evae, but B is so defective that it is impossible to see exactly what the poet intended, though this did not stop Kock (NN §§2856, 2676) from somewhat fanciful speculation.
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