Anon Mey 46VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra meyja drápa 46’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 919-20.
Eufémía ‘Euphemia’
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Eufemía (noun f.): [Euphemia]
ágæt ‘excellent’
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ágætr (adj.; °compar. ágǽtari/ágǽtri, superl. ágǽtastr/ágǽztr): excellent
meyja ‘maiden’
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meyja (noun f.; °-u): maiden, virgin
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
vildi ‘would’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
goðunum ‘to the gods’
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goð (noun n.): (pagan) god
hneigja ‘pay homage’
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hneigja (verb): incline, pay homage
Priskus ‘Priscus’
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Priskus (noun m.): [Priscus]
jarl ‘Earl’
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jarl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): poet, earl
liet ‘had’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
pína ‘tormented’
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3. pína (verb): torture, torment
feska ‘fresh’
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fagr (adj.; °fagran; compar. fegri, superl. fegrstr): fair, beautiful
kennings
feska plómu guðs‘the fresh plum-tree of God ’
= HOLY WOMAN
the fresh plum-tree of God → HOLY WOMAN
notes
[3-4] feska plómu guðs ‘the fresh plum-tree [or plum] of God [HOLY WOMAN]’: An unusual kenning for a holy woman. Plóma ‘plum’ occurs only here and in Þul Viðar 1/4III in skaldic poetry, while fe[r]skr, a late loan from Low German, has the sense of ‘good, good-looking, fresh, new’.
plómu ‘plum-tree’
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1. plóma (noun f.; °-u; -ur): plum-tree
kennings
feska plómu guðs‘the fresh plum-tree of God ’
= HOLY WOMAN
the fresh plum-tree of God → HOLY WOMAN
notes
[3-4] feska plómu guðs ‘the fresh plum-tree [or plum] of God [HOLY WOMAN]’: An unusual kenning for a holy woman. Plóma ‘plum’ occurs only here and in Þul Viðar 1/4III in skaldic poetry, while fe[r]skr, a late loan from Low German, has the sense of ‘good, good-looking, fresh, new’.
guðs ‘of God’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
kennings
feska plómu guðs‘the fresh plum-tree of God ’
= HOLY WOMAN
the fresh plum-tree of God → HOLY WOMAN
notes
[3-4] feska plómu guðs ‘the fresh plum-tree [or plum] of God [HOLY WOMAN]’: An unusual kenning for a holy woman. Plóma ‘plum’ occurs only here and in Þul Viðar 1/4III in skaldic poetry, while fe[r]skr, a late loan from Low German, has the sense of ‘good, good-looking, fresh, new’.
að ‘in accordance with’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
dómi ‘judgement’
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dómr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): judgement; court; -dom, -ness (suffix)
Ágætust ‘most excellent’
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ágætr (adj.; °compar. ágǽtari/ágǽtri, superl. ágǽtastr/ágǽztr): excellent
úr ‘out’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
ofni ‘oven’
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ofn (noun m.; °dat. -1; -ar): [oven]
heitum ‘hot’
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heitr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): hot, ardent
jungfrú ‘maiden’
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jungfrú (noun f.): maiden, virgin
giekk ‘walked’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
sakaði ‘was unscathed’
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saka (verb): blame, be guilty
ekki ‘’
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2. ekki (adv.): not
síðan ‘later’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
skyldu ‘were intended’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
sagirnar ‘the saws’
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sǫg (noun f.; °; sagir): [a tattling, saws]
meiða ‘to injure’
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meiða (verb): maim, wound
sætu ‘woman’
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1. sæta (noun f.; °-u; -ur): woman, lady
sem ‘whom’
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sem (conj.): as, which
drottinn ‘Lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
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Euphemia, an excellent maiden, would not pay homage to the gods; Earl Priscus had the fresh plum-tree of God [HOLY WOMAN] tormented in accordance with a wrong judgement. The most excellent maiden walked out of a hot oven and was unscathed; later the saws were intended to injure that woman whom the Lord watches over.
S. Euphemia, celebrated in sts 46-7, was not the object of a cult in Iceland, nor is there any extant prose saga of her life. She is said to have been martyred at Chalcedon (in Asia Minor), after being subjected to many tortures, because she refused to attend a festival in honour of the pagan god Ares. She miraculously survived these assaults until she was thrown to wild beasts.
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