Anon (LaufE) 9III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Laufás Edda 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 646.
sá ‘saw’
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2. sjá (verb): see
hann ‘He’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[1] hann: ek 1496ˣ, 2368ˣ, 743ˣ
notes
[1] hann ‘he’: The 1496ˣ, 2368ˣ, 743ˣ variant ek ‘I’ is also possible, but could have been caused by the fact that the stanza that follows immediately upon this one in LaufE Y and 1496ˣ (Anon (LaufE) 10) is in the 1st pers. sg. (so Jón Helgason 1966a).
falla ‘flow’
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falla (verb): fall
eitri ‘poison’
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eitr (noun n.; °; dat. -um): poison
notes
[2] blandna eitri ‘mixed with poison’: The reference to this poisonous river is obscure, but it recalls the mythical rivers Élivágar, which according to Vafþr were mixed with poison. Cf. Vafþr 31/1-3 (NK 50): Ór Élivágom | stucco eitrdropar ‘Drops of poison were flung from the Élivágar’. See also Gylf (SnE 2005, 9-10). Jón Helgason (1966a) sees mythical allusions here as well, possibly to Óðinn’s journey to Hel in Bdr or to the river Slíðr described in Vsp 36/1-2 (NK 8): Á fellr austan | um eitrdala ‘A river flows from the east through valleys of poison’. See also Eil Þdr 6/7-8.
blandna ‘mixed with’
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2. blanda (verb; °blendr; blett, blendu; blandinn): mix, blend (strong)
notes
[2] blandna eitri ‘mixed with poison’: The reference to this poisonous river is obscure, but it recalls the mythical rivers Élivágar, which according to Vafþr were mixed with poison. Cf. Vafþr 31/1-3 (NK 50): Ór Élivágom | stucco eitrdropar ‘Drops of poison were flung from the Élivágar’. See also Gylf (SnE 2005, 9-10). Jón Helgason (1966a) sees mythical allusions here as well, possibly to Óðinn’s journey to Hel in Bdr or to the river Slíðr described in Vsp 36/1-2 (NK 8): Á fellr austan | um eitrdala ‘A river flows from the east through valleys of poison’. See also Eil Þdr 6/7-8.
sparn ‘kicked’
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sperna (verb): kick
[3] sparn fótum (‘spann fötum’): ‘sporum’ 1496ˣ, 2368ˣ, ‘spotum’ 743ˣ
notes
[3] sparn … fótum ‘kicked … with its feet’: Ms. 742ˣ has ‘spann fötum’, where ‘spann’ is an orthographic variant of sparn (see Heggstad et al. 2008: sperna). The variants in 1496ˣ, 2368ˣ (‘sporum’) and 743ˣ (‘spotum’) must have been caused by scribal corruption at some point in the ms. transmission.
fótum ‘with its feet’
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1. fótr (noun m.): foot, leg
[3] sparn fótum (‘spann fötum’): ‘sporum’ 1496ˣ, 2368ˣ, ‘spotum’ 743ˣ
notes
[3] sparn … fótum ‘kicked … with its feet’: Ms. 742ˣ has ‘spann fötum’, where ‘spann’ is an orthographic variant of sparn (see Heggstad et al. 2008: sperna). The variants in 1496ˣ, 2368ˣ (‘sporum’) and 743ˣ (‘spotum’) must have been caused by scribal corruption at some point in the ms. transmission.
kennings
sveita foldar‘the blood of the earth ’
= WATER
the blood of the earth → WATER
notes
[4] sveita foldar ‘the blood of the earth [WATER]’: The 2368ˣ, 743ˣ variant, dreyra foldar ‘gore of the earth’, is an equally good reading, but could have been caused by the kenning dreyra dals ‘gore of the valley [WATER]’ in Anon (LaufE) 10/3 (see Note to l. 1 above). Ms. 1496ˣ has an open space with a horizontal line, followed by the word dreyra.
kennings
sveita foldar‘the blood of the earth ’
= WATER
the blood of the earth → WATER
notes
[4] sveita foldar ‘the blood of the earth [WATER]’: The 2368ˣ, 743ˣ variant, dreyra foldar ‘gore of the earth’, is an equally good reading, but could have been caused by the kenning dreyra dals ‘gore of the valley [WATER]’ in Anon (LaufE) 10/3 (see Note to l. 1 above). Ms. 1496ˣ has an open space with a horizontal line, followed by the word dreyra.
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The helmingr is listed in the section on heiti and kennings for ‘river-water’ (LaufE 1979, 337: Arvatn heiter ‘River-water is called’), and the kenning sveita foldar ‘blood of the earth’ illustrates ‘water’ being paraphrased as ben, blod, dreyra og sueita jardarinnar ‘wounds, blood, gore and blood of the earth’.
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