Anon Gyð 4VII
Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Gyðingsvísur 4’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 520-1.
Ófs ‘excessive’
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ofs (adj.): [excessive]
fekk ‘secured’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
orðs ‘’
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orð (noun n.; °-s; -): word < orðstírr (noun m.): glory
tír ‘reputation’
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tírr (noun m.; °-s): glory, honour < orðstírr (noun m.): glory
hæfan ‘a fitting’
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hœfr (adj.): proper, fitting
auðar ‘with wealth’
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1. auðr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-): wealth
mildr ‘generous’
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mildr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -astr): mild, gentle, gracious, generous
sem ‘as’
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sem (conj.): as, which
[2] sem vildi: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘s[...]llde’ B, ‘s[...]illde’ BRydberg, BFJ
vildi ‘he wanted’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
[2] sem vildi: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘s[...]llde’ B, ‘s[...]illde’ BRydberg, BFJ
gráns ‘of the grey’
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grár (adj.; °gráan/grán): grey
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
gráns ‘of the grey’
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grár (adj.; °gráan/grán): grey
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
gráns ‘of the grey’
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grár (adj.; °gráan/grán): grey
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
fyr ‘for’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
gjöfli ‘munificence’
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gjǫfli (noun f.): generosity, munificence
sína ‘his’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
graf ‘grave’
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grǫf (noun f.): grave < grafþvengr (noun m.)
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
graf ‘grave’
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grǫf (noun f.): grave < grafþvengr (noun m.)
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
graf ‘grave’
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grǫf (noun f.): grave < grafþvengr (noun m.)
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
þveings ‘thong’
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þvengr (noun m.; °; -ir): thong < grafþvengr (noun m.)
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
þveings ‘thong’
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þvengr (noun m.; °; -ir): thong < grafþvengr (noun m.)
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
þveings ‘thong’
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þvengr (noun m.; °; -ir): thong < grafþvengr (noun m.)
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
boði ‘The offerer’
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boði (noun m.; °-a; -ar): messenger, breaker
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
veingis ‘of the land’
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vengi (noun n.): land, field
[4] veingis: so 399a‑bˣ, BRydberg, BFJ, ‘v[...]ngiss’ B
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
veingis ‘of the land’
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vengi (noun n.): land, field
[4] veingis: so 399a‑bˣ, BRydberg, BFJ, ‘v[...]ngiss’ B
kennings
Boði veingis gráns grafþveings,‘The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong, ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the grey grave-thong, → SNAKE
the land of the SNAKE → GOLD
The offerer of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
Átti ‘had’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
vin ‘a friend’
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vinr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/(-i OsvReyk 92.17); -ir): friend
því ‘because’
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því (adv.): therefore, because
að ‘’
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4. at (conj.): that
veitti ‘gave out’
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2. veita (verb): grant, give
notes
[6] vell: Sveinbjörn Egilsson (note to 444ˣ transcription) suggests reconstruction to vell, which has been adopted by all subsequent eds.
kennings
…dr svellir ímu‘the … sweller of battle ’
= WARRIOR
the … sweller of battle → WARRIOR
notes
[6] …dr: The beginning of this word is lost in a large hole, though ‘dr’ is certain. Finnur Jónsson (Skj A) indicated that ‘ndr’ were visible to him. The essential sense of the st. is clear from the remaining words, and the most likely loss is therefore some monosyllabic adj. qualifying svellir ímu or an additional part of the determinant of the warrior-kenning. Jón Sigurðsson, in a n. to his 444ˣ transcript, suggests that the missing word might be mildr but this seems unlikely, since that word occupies the corresponding position in the first helmingr. Kock (NN §2980) reconstructs endr, which, he claims, acts in conjunction with the pret. to form a version of the pluperfect tense. He construes þvít ímu svellir veitti endr vell ‘because the sweller of battle had given out gold’.
ímu ‘of battle’
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íma (noun f.): ember, battle, dusky one
kennings
…dr svellir ímu‘the … sweller of battle ’
= WARRIOR
the … sweller of battle → WARRIOR
svellir ‘sweller’
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svellir (noun m.): increaser, sweller
kennings
…dr svellir ímu‘the … sweller of battle ’
= WARRIOR
the … sweller of battle → WARRIOR
hann ‘He’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
und ‘in’
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath
hverjum ‘every’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
runni ‘bush’
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runnr (noun m.; °dat. -i/-; -ar): bush, tree
kennings
runni Hamdis bríkr‘bush of Hamðir’s board ’
= MAN
Hamðir’s board → SHIELD
bush of the SHIELD → MAN
notes
[7-8] runni Hamðis bríkr ‘bush (dat. sg.) of Hamðir’s board [SHIELD > MAN]’: The story of the hero Hamðir and his brother Sǫrli, sons of Guðrún Gjúkadóttir by Jónakr, is recounted in a number of ON poems and prose texts, e.g. Hamð, Bragi Rdr 3-7III; Skm (SnE 1998, I, 49-50); Vǫls, chs 41-4. The name Hamðir occurs frequently in kennings for stone, mailcoat and, here, for shield (LP: Hamðir). On the gen. sg. of brík, f., which may be in -ar or -r, see LP: brík and Thomson 1987, 148.
Hamdis ‘of Hamðir’s’
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Hamðir (noun m.): Hamðir
[8] Hamdis: so 399a‑bˣ, BRydberg, BFJ, ‘hamd[...]ss’ B
kennings
runni Hamdis bríkr‘bush of Hamðir’s board ’
= MAN
Hamðir’s board → SHIELD
bush of the SHIELD → MAN
notes
[7-8] runni Hamðis bríkr ‘bush (dat. sg.) of Hamðir’s board [SHIELD > MAN]’: The story of the hero Hamðir and his brother Sǫrli, sons of Guðrún Gjúkadóttir by Jónakr, is recounted in a number of ON poems and prose texts, e.g. Hamð, Bragi Rdr 3-7III; Skm (SnE 1998, I, 49-50); Vǫls, chs 41-4. The name Hamðir occurs frequently in kennings for stone, mailcoat and, here, for shield (LP: Hamðir). On the gen. sg. of brík, f., which may be in -ar or -r, see LP: brík and Thomson 1987, 148.
Hamdis ‘of Hamðir’s’
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Hamðir (noun m.): Hamðir
[8] Hamdis: so 399a‑bˣ, BRydberg, BFJ, ‘hamd[...]ss’ B
kennings
runni Hamdis bríkr‘bush of Hamðir’s board ’
= MAN
Hamðir’s board → SHIELD
bush of the SHIELD → MAN
notes
[7-8] runni Hamðis bríkr ‘bush (dat. sg.) of Hamðir’s board [SHIELD > MAN]’: The story of the hero Hamðir and his brother Sǫrli, sons of Guðrún Gjúkadóttir by Jónakr, is recounted in a number of ON poems and prose texts, e.g. Hamð, Bragi Rdr 3-7III; Skm (SnE 1998, I, 49-50); Vǫls, chs 41-4. The name Hamðir occurs frequently in kennings for stone, mailcoat and, here, for shield (LP: Hamðir). On the gen. sg. of brík, f., which may be in -ar or -r, see LP: brík and Thomson 1987, 148.
bríkr ‘board’
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brík (noun f.; °-ar; -r): plank
[8] bríkr: so 399a‑bˣ, BRydberg, BFJ, ‘brik[...]’ B
kennings
runni Hamdis bríkr‘bush of Hamðir’s board ’
= MAN
Hamðir’s board → SHIELD
bush of the SHIELD → MAN
notes
[7-8] runni Hamðis bríkr ‘bush (dat. sg.) of Hamðir’s board [SHIELD > MAN]’: The story of the hero Hamðir and his brother Sǫrli, sons of Guðrún Gjúkadóttir by Jónakr, is recounted in a number of ON poems and prose texts, e.g. Hamð, Bragi Rdr 3-7III; Skm (SnE 1998, I, 49-50); Vǫls, chs 41-4. The name Hamðir occurs frequently in kennings for stone, mailcoat and, here, for shield (LP: Hamðir). On the gen. sg. of brík, f., which may be in -ar or -r, see LP: brík and Thomson 1987, 148.
bríkr ‘board’
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brík (noun f.; °-ar; -r): plank
[8] bríkr: so 399a‑bˣ, BRydberg, BFJ, ‘brik[...]’ B
kennings
runni Hamdis bríkr‘bush of Hamðir’s board ’
= MAN
Hamðir’s board → SHIELD
bush of the SHIELD → MAN
notes
[7-8] runni Hamðis bríkr ‘bush (dat. sg.) of Hamðir’s board [SHIELD > MAN]’: The story of the hero Hamðir and his brother Sǫrli, sons of Guðrún Gjúkadóttir by Jónakr, is recounted in a number of ON poems and prose texts, e.g. Hamð, Bragi Rdr 3-7III; Skm (SnE 1998, I, 49-50); Vǫls, chs 41-4. The name Hamðir occurs frequently in kennings for stone, mailcoat and, here, for shield (LP: Hamðir). On the gen. sg. of brík, f., which may be in -ar or -r, see LP: brík and Thomson 1987, 148.
af ‘on account’
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af (prep.): from
slíku ‘of such’
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2. slíkr (adj.): such
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Ófs fekk orðstír hæfan |
The offerer of the land of the grey grave-thong [SNAKE > GOLD > GENEROUS MAN], generous with wealth, secured a fitting reputation, as he wanted, for his excessive munificence. He had a friend in every bush of Hamðir’s <hero> board [SHIELD > MAN] on account of such [generosity], because the … sweller of battle [WARRIOR] gave out gold.
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