Anon (Vǫlsa) 11I
Wilhelm Heizmann (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Vǫlsa þáttr 11’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1102.
Sá ‘seen’
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2. sjá (verb): see
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
ei ‘never’
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3. ei (adv.): not
forðum ‘before’
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forðum (adv.): formerly, once
hefik ‘I have’
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hafa (verb): have
farit ‘travelled’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
víða ‘far and wide’
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1. víða (adv.): widely
flent ‘with the foreskin pulled back’
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flenna (verb): pull back
[3] flent reðr fyrri: ‘flemt edur firne’ 292ˣ
notes
[3] flent reðr ‘penis with the foreskin pulled back’: The expression is a clear indication of the fact that Vǫlsi should be imagined as an erect penis. For flenna in the meaning of ‘pulling up the foreskin’, cf. SnH Lv 10/3-4II: flenna allt leðr reðri Haralds upp af enni ‘to pull all the skin of Haraldr’s prick up from the head’. A hestreðr ‘horse-penis’ is mentioned in a níð stanza by King Magnús góði referring to Sigurður sýr (Mgóð Lv 1/4II).
reðr ‘a penis’
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2. reðr (noun n.): prick, phallus, penis
[3] flent reðr fyrri: ‘flemt edur firne’ 292ˣ
notes
[3] flent reðr ‘penis with the foreskin pulled back’: The expression is a clear indication of the fact that Vǫlsi should be imagined as an erect penis. For flenna in the meaning of ‘pulling up the foreskin’, cf. SnH Lv 10/3-4II: flenna allt leðr reðri Haralds upp af enni ‘to pull all the skin of Haraldr’s prick up from the head’. A hestreðr ‘horse-penis’ is mentioned in a níð stanza by King Magnús góði referring to Sigurður sýr (Mgóð Lv 1/4II).
fyrri ‘first’
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2. fyrri (adv.): before, previously
[3] flent reðr fyrri: ‘flemt edur firne’ 292ˣ
fara ‘pass’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
með ‘along’
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með (prep.): with
bekkjum ‘the benches’
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1. bekkr (noun m.; °-jar/-s, dat. -/-i; -ir): bench
Þiggi ‘receive’
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þiggja (verb): receive, get
[5, 6] Þiggi Maurnir þetta: abbrev. as ‘.þ. m. þ.’ Flat
Maurnir ‘Maurnir’
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Maurnir (noun m.): Maurnir
[5, 6] Þiggi Maurnir þetta: abbrev. as ‘.þ. m. þ.’ Flat
þetta ‘this’
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1. sjá (pron.; °gen. þessa dat. þessum/þeima, acc. þenna; f. sjá/þessi; n. þetta, dat. þessu/þvísa; pl. þessir): this
[5, 6] Þiggi Maurnir þetta: abbrev. as ‘.þ. m. þ.’ Flat
blæti ‘offering’
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blœti (noun n.): offering
En ‘But’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
Aðalgrímr ‘Aðalgrímr (‘Chief Grímr’)’
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Aðalgrímr (noun m.): Aðalgrímr
notes
[7] Aðalgrímr ‘(“Chief Grímr”)’: An otherwise unattested ad hoc formation with aðal ‘noble, chief’, in order to emphasise the king (supposedly Óláfr Haraldsson) among the three Grímrs; cf. Note to st. 9/8.
tak ‘take’
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2. taka (verb): take
enn ‘too’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
við ‘’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
Vǫlsa ‘Vǫlsi’
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vǫlsi (noun m.; °-a): rod
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Þormóðr examines Vǫlsi carefully, smiles and speaks a stanza, before passing it on to the third guest, who is called konungr ‘king’ in the prose text.
The attribution of the stanza to the distinguished skáld Þormóðr Kolbrúnarskáld (ÞormV) is an amusing fiction. It is printed in Skj AI, 285-6, BI, 264 as Þorm Lv 17 as well as in the Vǫlsa sequence in Skj AII, BII. — [3] flent reðr fyrri ‘penis with the foreskin pulled back ... first’: Ms. 292ˣ instead reads ‘flemt edur firne’, which may be related to ModIcel. flimt n. ‘a lampoon, libel’ and firni n. pl. ‘an abomination, shocking thing’ (cf. Düwel 1971, 166 referring to CVC). The force of fyrri in the Flat text, here translated ‘first’, is not clear.
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