Anon Mey 38VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra meyja drápa 38’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 915.
Sæt ‘sweet’
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sœtr (adj.): sweet
Lúcía ‘Lucy’
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Lucía (noun ?): [Lucy]
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
að ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
hieti ‘was called’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
Sikileyjar ‘of Sicily’
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Sikiley (noun f.): [Sicily]
vænsta ‘most beautiful’
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vænn (adj.): beautiful, expected
meyja ‘maiden’
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meyja (noun f.; °-u): maiden, virgin
prúða ‘beautiful one’
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prúðr (adj.; °superl. -astr): magnificent, proud
vildi ‘wanted’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
leiða ‘to send’
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2. leiða (verb; -dd): lead; (-sk) grow tired
Páskásíus ‘Pascasius’
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Páskasíus (noun m.): [Pascasius]
[4] Páskásíus: so 713, Páskálius 721
fullr ‘full’
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2. fullr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): full, complete
af ‘of’
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af (prep.): from
háska ‘sin’
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háski (noun m.; °-a; -ar): danger
Hvergi ‘In no’
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2. hvergi (pron.): not, nowhere, neither
máttu ‘could’
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mega (verb): may, might
höldar ‘men’
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hǫlðr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): man
margir ‘many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
hræra ‘move’
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2. hrœra (verb): move
nökkur ‘way’
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nøkkurr (pron.): some, a certain
drottins ‘of the Lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
kennings
kæru drottins;‘the woman of the Lord; ’
= HOLY WOMAN
the woman of the Lord; → HOLY WOMAN
kæru ‘the woman’
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1. kæra (noun f.; °-u; -ur): wife, woman
kennings
kæru drottins;‘the woman of the Lord; ’
= HOLY WOMAN
the woman of the Lord; → HOLY WOMAN
orka ‘employ’
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2. orka (verb): manage, achieve
þeir ‘they’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
að ‘’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
yxnum ‘oxen’
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øxn (noun n.; °; øxn/yxn): [oxen]
sterkum ‘strong’
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sterkr (adj.): strong
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
mega ‘can’
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mega (verb): may, might
þau ‘they’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
frúna ‘the lady’
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frú (noun f.): lady
sveigja ‘budge’
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sveigja (verb): bend
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Stanzas 38-9 celebrate S. Lucy of Sicily, while sts 40-1 refer to S. Lucy of Rome, who does not seem to have been venerated in Iceland. There are two fragments of a C14th saga of S. Lucy of Sicily (Unger 1877, I, 433-6; Foote 1962, 26; Widding, Bekker-Nielsen and Shook 1963, 319; Wolf 2003, 148-51, 177-8), and relatively weak evidence of her cult before c. 1200 (Cormack 1994, 118-19). Lucy’s story is that she rejected her pagan suitor Pascasius, who denounced her as a Christian. She was miraculously saved from a brothel and from death by fire. She was finally killed by a sword thrust through her throat. — [5-8]: These ll. follow the general story line of the prose saga (Unger 1877, I, 435; Wolf 2003, 150), though in a rather cryptic fashion. When men tried to take Lucy to a brothel, it was found that she could not be moved. Sorcerers were called in to try and move her by magic, but they failed. She was then drenched in urine to counter any magical powers that she might have been using herself, to no effect. Finally, a team of oxen was brought in to move her but they also failed.
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