Anon (Vǫlsa) 3I
Wilhelm Heizmann (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Vǫlsa þáttr 3’ 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. 1094.
Ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
sé ‘see’
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2. sjá (verb): see
gull ‘gold’
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gull (noun n.): gold
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
gestum ‘the guests’
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gestr (noun m.): guest, stranger
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
guð ‘of precious’
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góðr (adj.): good < guðvefr (noun m.): precious fabric
notes
[2] skikkjur guðvefjar ‘cloaks of precious material’: Cf. Anon Ól 7/1 and Note.
vefjar ‘material’
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vefr (noun m.; °-jar; -ir): cloth, sail, weaving < guðvefr (noun m.): precious fabric
notes
[2] skikkjur guðvefjar ‘cloaks of precious material’: Cf. Anon Ól 7/1 and Note.
skikkjur ‘cloaks’
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1. skikkja (noun f.; °-u; -ur): cloak
notes
[2] skikkjur guðvefjar ‘cloaks of precious material’: Cf. Anon Ól 7/1 and Note.
mér ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
fellr ‘am pleased’
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fellr (adj.): [am pleased]
hugr ‘’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage
til ‘by’
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til (prep.): to
hringa ‘the rings’
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1. hringr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ar): ring; sword
heldr ‘rather’
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heldr (adv.): rather
vil ‘would’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
notes
[4] vil ek ‘I would be’: Lit. ‘I want’. The inf. vera ‘be’ is understood (NN §2359; cf. Sigv Vestv 7/2-3).
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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[4] vil ek ‘I would be’: Lit. ‘I want’. The inf. vera ‘be’ is understood (NN §2359; cf. Sigv Vestv 7/2-3).
bjúg ‘be crippled’
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bjúgr (adj.; °compar. -ari): bent
[4] bjúg: ‘biug’ or ‘buíg’ Flat, 292ˣ
notes
[4] bjúg ‘crippled’: All eds take ‘bing’ as the ms. reading of Flat. However, the <n> in question cannot be differentiated from a <u>, and the same is true for 292ˣ. Since all paper mss that certainly descend from Flat (cf. Introduction) read ‘biug’, we can assume that this had also been the original version. (For confusion of ‘biug/bing’, cf. Anon Sól 76/1VII and Hallm Hallkv 8/4V (Bergb 8)). Kock (NN §2359) emends to biug (normalised bjúg), f. sg. of bjúgr ‘bowed, hooked, crooked, bent’, and this interpretation is adopted here. In order to clarify the word, Kock refers to sayings such as Ger. Lieber möchte mich Gott mit Lahmheit schlagen ‘May God rather strike me with lameness’, or Swed. Så må Herren jöra mig lytt och lam, om jag juger! ‘May God make me crippled and lame if I lie’. Finnur Jónsson’s emendation (Skj B) to þing in the sense of ‘valuables, jewels’ seems less probable. Düwel (1971, 165) holds to the putative ms. reading ‘bing’ and regards the word as bingr ‘a bed, bolster’: in order to avoid telling a lie, the daughter wants to retire to her bed.
en ‘than’
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4. en (conj.): than
ljúga ‘tell a lie’
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ljúga (verb): lie
Kenni ‘recognize’
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kenna (verb): know, teach
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þik ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
konungr ‘king’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
minn ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
kominn ‘come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
ertu ‘you have’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
Óláfr ‘Óláfr’
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Óláfr (noun m.): Óláfr
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King Óláfr, together with Finnr Árnason and Þormóðr Kolbrúnarskáld, visits the farm incognito; all three don grey cloaks and say they are called Grímr. They are greeted warmly by the daughter of the house. She recognizes the guests in spite of their disguise, as she reveals in the stanza. Afterwards King Óláfr asks her to keep the secret to herself.
This is the only stanza that deviates from the (irregular) fornyrðislag metre of the others, and it has only six lines rather than the normal (though not invariable) eight. CPB puts it at the end of the poem, while Heusler and Ranisch (Edd. Min.) omit it.
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