Anon Gát 2III
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Gátur 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 634.
text and translation
Enn sá ek fljúga öðru sinni:
skorinn línskauta ok skip Þráins,
járn ór afli, útleidda sál,
konu kjötnefnda fyr kvið neðan.
Enn sá ek fljúga öðru sinni: skorinn línskauta ok skip Þráins, járn ór afli, útleidda sál, kjötnefnda konu fyr neðan kvið.
‘Again I saw fly a second time: cut linen-square and Þráinn’s ship, iron from the forge, transcended soul, named flesh of a woman below the belly. ’
notes and context
[7-8]: Kjötnefnda ‘named flesh’, lit. ‘flesh-named’, an adj. (f. acc. sg.) qualifying konu ‘woman’ (l. 7). This is a hap. leg. and its meaning is not secure. However the meaning of the entire phrase is clear enough; the homonyms are gás ‘female sexual organs’ (AEW, Fritzner: gás 2) and gás ‘goose’. Ms. 1562ˣ has the gloss grágás, lit. ‘grey goose’.
readings
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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.
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AM 625 4° (625) — 77r/20 - 77r/22
imagesEnn sá ek fljúga
öngan sinni:
skorinn línskauta
ok skip Þráins,
járn ór afli,
útleidda sál,
konu kjötnefnda
fyr kvið neðan.Enn saa ek fliuga aungan sinn […] | skorinn linskauta ok skip þrains iarn ꜷr afli wt leid | da saal konu kiotnefnda fyr kuid nedan
(LG)
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AM 743 4°x (743x) — 103r/24 - 103r/27
imagesEnn sa eg fliuga odru sinni | skorinn lïn-skauta og skip þräins | järn ur afli utleidda säl | konu kiǫtnefnda fyr […]d nedan
(LG)
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AM 167 b 3 8°x (167b 3x) — 14r/10 - 14r/12
imagesEnn sa eg fliuga ódru sinne skorinn lijn skauta og | skip þrainz jarn ur afle v̈t leydda sál konu | kiot nefnda fyr kuid nedann
(LG)
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