Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Gnóðar-Ásmundar drápa 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 626.
‘Megu í gegn glyggi,’
kvað grefja tyggi,
— hálft nam hann þat ljúga —
‘hrafnar trautt fljúga.’
‘Hrafnar megu trautt fljúga í gegn glyggi,’ kvað {tyggi grefja}; hann nam ljúga þat hálft.
‘‘Ravens can hardly fly against the storm,’ said the prince of hoes [FARMER]; he was half lying. ’
The context of this helmingr’s citation in LaufE is a section of the treatise on ways of forming kennings for ‘man’. In this case l. 2 provides an example of a kenning based on what a man controls, of which he is the keeper, owner or manager (þat hann er stýrandi). The lines are introduced with the statement (normalised) svá segir í drápu Gnóðar-Ásmundar ‘thus it says in Gnóðar-Ásmundar drápa’.
The metre is málaháttr with end-rhyme (cf. SnSt Ht 83, 92).
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.
Megu j giegn glygge, kuad grefia tygge | halft nam han þad liuga, hrafnar trautt fliuga. |
(HA)
‘Megn í gegn glyggi,’
kvað grefja tyggi,
— hálft nam hann þat ljúga —
‘hrafnar trautt fljúga.’
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], A. 5. Gnóðar-Ásmundardrápa: AI, 591, BI, 591, Skald I, 288; SnE 1848-87, II, 628, III, 191-2, LaufE 1979, 372.
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