Anon Mey 7VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra meyja drápa 7’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 896.
þrjár ‘three’
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þrír (num. cardinal): three
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
dygð ‘virtue’
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dyggð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): virtue
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
dygðar ‘virtue’
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dyggð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): virtue < dyggðagœddr (adj.)
[2] dygðargædd: dýrðargæadd 713
er ‘When’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
Anna ‘Anna’
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Anna (noun f.): Anna
fæddi ‘gave birth to’
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2. fœða (verb): to feed, give food to, bring up, bear, give birth to
Máríu ‘Mary’
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María (noun f.): Mary
liet ‘let’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
hun ‘she’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
meyna ‘the maiden’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
heita ‘be called’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
meir ‘more’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
notes
[4] elskandi meir en hverja þeira ‘loving [her, the Virgin Mary] more than any of the others’: The phrase is problematical, but is here taken, following Skj B, to refer to the Virgin Mary. Kock (NN §3390) emends meyna (l. 3) to meynar ‘maidens’ acc. pl., referring to all three sisters named Mary. He then construes l. 4 to mean ‘later loving each and every one of them’. However, the separation of meir ... en ‘more ... than’ is rather strained.
elskandi ‘loving’
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2. elska (verb; °-að-): love
notes
[4] elskandi meir en hverja þeira ‘loving [her, the Virgin Mary] more than any of the others’: The phrase is problematical, but is here taken, following Skj B, to refer to the Virgin Mary. Kock (NN §3390) emends meyna (l. 3) to meynar ‘maidens’ acc. pl., referring to all three sisters named Mary. He then construes l. 4 to mean ‘later loving each and every one of them’. However, the separation of meir ... en ‘more ... than’ is rather strained.
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[4] elskandi meir en hverja þeira ‘loving [her, the Virgin Mary] more than any of the others’: The phrase is problematical, but is here taken, following Skj B, to refer to the Virgin Mary. Kock (NN §3390) emends meyna (l. 3) to meynar ‘maidens’ acc. pl., referring to all three sisters named Mary. He then construes l. 4 to mean ‘later loving each and every one of them’. However, the separation of meir ... en ‘more ... than’ is rather strained.
hverja ‘any’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
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[4] elskandi meir en hverja þeira ‘loving [her, the Virgin Mary] more than any of the others’: The phrase is problematical, but is here taken, following Skj B, to refer to the Virgin Mary. Kock (NN §3390) emends meyna (l. 3) to meynar ‘maidens’ acc. pl., referring to all three sisters named Mary. He then construes l. 4 to mean ‘later loving each and every one of them’. However, the separation of meir ... en ‘more ... than’ is rather strained.
þeira ‘of the others’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[4] elskandi meir en hverja þeira ‘loving [her, the Virgin Mary] more than any of the others’: The phrase is problematical, but is here taken, following Skj B, to refer to the Virgin Mary. Kock (NN §3390) emends meyna (l. 3) to meynar ‘maidens’ acc. pl., referring to all three sisters named Mary. He then construes l. 4 to mean ‘later loving each and every one of them’. However, the separation of meir ... en ‘more ... than’ is rather strained.
Ætt ‘highest’
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1. ætt (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): family < ættprúðr (adj.)
prúðasta ‘born’
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prúðr (adj.; °superl. -astr): magnificent, proud < ættprúðr (adj.)
Jóachíms ‘Joachim’s’
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Jóakim (noun m.): [Joachim]
átti ‘had’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
hun ‘she’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
fyst ‘First’
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fyrstr (num. ordinal): first
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
dýrkaz ‘be worshipped’
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dýrka (verb; °-að-): glorify, worship
mátti ‘could’
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mega (verb): may, might
kunnig ‘known’
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kunnigr (adj.; °acc. kunngan/kunnigan; compar. -ari; superl. -astr): known
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
Máría ‘Mary’
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María (noun f.): Mary
mönnum ‘to people’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
menn ‘people’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
allir ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
fá ‘receive’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
líkn ‘mercy’
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líkn (noun f.; °-ar; gen. -a): grace, mercy
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
henni ‘her’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
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When virtue-endowed Anna gave birth to three daughters [equipped] with virtue and wisdom she let the maiden be called Mary, loving [her, the Virgin Mary] more than any of the others. First she had Joachim’s highest-born daughter, who could be worshipped; Mary is now known to people; all people receive mercy from her.
The idea that Anna, mother of the Virgin Mary, was married three times derives in part from the gospels and in part from the apocryphal work known as Trinubium Annae, of which there is an Icel. extract, giving Anna’s genealogy (AÍ I, 56; Turville-Petre 1947, 138). Anna’s husbands are there said to be Joachim, Cleophas, brother of Joseph, and Salome or Salomas, and her marriage to each man produced a Mary. The first Mary was the mother of Christ, the second, who married one Alphaeus, the mother of four sons, Joseph and the three Apostles James the Less, Simon and Thaddaeus, while the third Mary, who married Zebedee, produced the Apostles John and James the Great. See sts 8-9, and on S. Anne see Wolf 2001. — [1-2]: Note the deliberate repetition of dygð/dygðar(gædd).
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