Anon GnóðÁsm 1III
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.
í ‘’
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í (prep.): in, into
gegn ‘against’
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2. gegn (prep.): against
glyggi ‘the storm’
kvað ‘said’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
grefja ‘of hoes’
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gref (noun n.): [hoe, hoes]
kennings
tyggi grefja;‘the prince of hoes; ’
= FARMER
the prince of hoes; → FARMER
notes
[2] tyggi grefja ‘the prince of hoes [FARMER]’: An ironic kenning combining a high-status base-word with a determinant from a semantic field associated with farm work. Cf. Sigv Austv 7/5I gætir grefs ‘the minder of the hoe [FARMER]’.
tyggi ‘the prince’
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tyggi (noun m.): prince, sovereign
kennings
tyggi grefja;‘the prince of hoes; ’
= FARMER
the prince of hoes; → FARMER
notes
[2] tyggi grefja ‘the prince of hoes [FARMER]’: An ironic kenning combining a high-status base-word with a determinant from a semantic field associated with farm work. Cf. Sigv Austv 7/5I gætir grefs ‘the minder of the hoe [FARMER]’.
hálft ‘half’
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halfr (adj.): half
nam ‘was’
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1. nema (verb): to take
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
ljúga ‘lying’
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ljúga (verb): lie
hrafnar ‘Ravens’
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hrafn (noun m.; °hrafns; dat. hrafni; hrafnar): raven
trautt ‘hardly’
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trauðr (adj.): reluctant
fljúga ‘fly’
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fljúga (verb): fly
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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).
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