Anon (LaufE) 10III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Laufás Edda 10’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 647.
notes
[1] er ek mýgi* andri ‘as I press down the ski’: Both mss read andi, which can only be construed as m. nom. sg. ‘spirit, soul, breath’, which makes no sense syntactically. The verb mýgja ‘press down, oppress’ takes the dat. (andri ‘ski’ is m. dat. sg.). Mýgi is 1st pers. sg. pres. indic. (emended from the later 1st pers. sg. pres. indic. form mýgir; see ANG §531.1). Alternatively, mýgir could be a nomen agentis, ‘oppressor’. That would require a determinant and a tentative suggestion might be anda (m. gen. sg.): ek er mýgir anda ‘I am the oppressor of breath’ (?).
er ‘As’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
notes
[1] er ek mýgi* andri ‘as I press down the ski’: Both mss read andi, which can only be construed as m. nom. sg. ‘spirit, soul, breath’, which makes no sense syntactically. The verb mýgja ‘press down, oppress’ takes the dat. (andri ‘ski’ is m. dat. sg.). Mýgi is 1st pers. sg. pres. indic. (emended from the later 1st pers. sg. pres. indic. form mýgir; see ANG §531.1). Alternatively, mýgir could be a nomen agentis, ‘oppressor’. That would require a determinant and a tentative suggestion might be anda (m. gen. sg.): ek er mýgir anda ‘I am the oppressor of breath’ (?).
ok ‘’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
notes
[1] er ek mýgi* andri ‘as I press down the ski’: Both mss read andi, which can only be construed as m. nom. sg. ‘spirit, soul, breath’, which makes no sense syntactically. The verb mýgja ‘press down, oppress’ takes the dat. (andri ‘ski’ is m. dat. sg.). Mýgi is 1st pers. sg. pres. indic. (emended from the later 1st pers. sg. pres. indic. form mýgir; see ANG §531.1). Alternatively, mýgir could be a nomen agentis, ‘oppressor’. That would require a determinant and a tentative suggestion might be anda (m. gen. sg.): ek er mýgir anda ‘I am the oppressor of breath’ (?).
notes
[1] er ek mýgi* andri ‘as I press down the ski’: Both mss read andi, which can only be construed as m. nom. sg. ‘spirit, soul, breath’, which makes no sense syntactically. The verb mýgja ‘press down, oppress’ takes the dat. (andri ‘ski’ is m. dat. sg.). Mýgi is 1st pers. sg. pres. indic. (emended from the later 1st pers. sg. pres. indic. form mýgir; see ANG §531.1). Alternatively, mýgir could be a nomen agentis, ‘oppressor’. That would require a determinant and a tentative suggestion might be anda (m. gen. sg.): ek er mýgir anda ‘I am the oppressor of breath’ (?).
upp ‘up’
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upp (adv.): up
með ‘along’
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með (prep.): with
vágu ‘’
vágs ‘the end’
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vágr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): sea, wave < vágsbotn (noun m.)
[2] vágs‑: ‘vogu’ 1496ˣ
botni ‘ of the bay’
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botn (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): bottom < vágsbotn (noun m.)botn (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): bottom
kom ‘came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
at ‘to’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
dals ‘of the valley’
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dalr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ir, acc. -i/-a): valley
kennings
dreyra dals.‘the gore of the valley. ’
= WATER
the gore of the valley. → WATER
dreyra ‘the gore’
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dreyri (noun m.; °-a): blood
kennings
dreyra dals.‘the gore of the valley. ’
= WATER
the gore of the valley. → WATER
notes
[3] dreyra ‘the gore’: This long-stemmed disyllabic noun violates the metre of ljóðaháttr, which requires either a monosyllable or a short-stemmed disyllabic word in line-final position. That metrical irregularity may indicate that the fragment is late.
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As st. 9 above.
[1-2]: The present translation is conjectural, and it is not clear exactly what the first part of the clause means. Jón Helgason (1966a) did not provide a translation here; he merely noted that a play on homonyms could be involved.
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