Anonymous Poems, Málsháttakvæði 16

Roberta Frank

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Anon Mhkv 16^III

Roberta Frank (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Málsháttakvæði 16’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1230.

Anonymous Poems Málsháttakvæði

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[2] við sáran fót: ‘[...]’ R, ‘v[...]fot’ RFJ, ‘[...]fot’ RJS

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[2] við sáran fót ‘a sore foot’: Lit. ‘against a sore foot’: The suggestion by Jón Sigurðsson has been followed in all subsequent eds.

sáran ‘a sore’

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sárr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): sore, painful; wounded

[2] við sáran fót: ‘[...]’ R, ‘v[...]fot’ RFJ, ‘[...]fot’ RJS

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[2] við sáran fót ‘a sore foot’: Lit. ‘against a sore foot’: The suggestion by Jón Sigurðsson has been followed in all subsequent eds.

fót ‘foot’

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1. fótr (noun m.): foot, leg

[2] við sáran fót: ‘[...]’ R, ‘v[...]fot’ RFJ, ‘[...]fot’ RJS

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[2] við sáran fót ‘a sore foot’: Lit. ‘against a sore foot’: The suggestion by Jón Sigurðsson has been followed in all subsequent eds.

hlutgjarn ‘a busybody’

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hlutgjarn (adj.): [a busybody]

ferr ‘conducts’

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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel

[4] ferr með: ‘f[...]’ R, ferr með RFJ

með ‘’

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með (prep.): with

[4] ferr með: ‘f[...]’ R, ferr með RFJ

annars ‘another’s’

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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second

sǫk ‘suit’

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sǫk (noun f.; °sakar; sakar/sakir): cause, offence

Nøkkvi ‘something’

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nøkkurr (pron.): some, a certain

ríkstr ‘of a king’

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ríkr (adj.): mighty, powerful, rich

er ‘is’

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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am

[5] er heima hverr: ‘[...]’ R, ‘[...] heima hv[...]’ RSkj, ‘heima h[...]’ RFJ, er heima hverr RJS

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[5] er hverr heima ‘at home each man is’: Lit. ‘is each at home’. No letters are now visible, but some were apparently legible to Finnur Jónsson and even more to Jón. Cf. Hávm 36/3, 37/3 (NK 22): halr er heima hverr ‘everyone’s someone at home’.

heima ‘At home’

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2. heima (adv.): at home

[5] er heima hverr: ‘[...]’ R, ‘[...] heima hv[...]’ RSkj, ‘heima h[...]’ RFJ, er heima hverr RJS

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hverr ‘each man’

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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every

[5] er heima hverr: ‘[...]’ R, ‘[...] heima hv[...]’ RSkj, ‘heima h[...]’ RFJ, er heima hverr RJS

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†ta† ‘…’

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(non-lexical)

[7] †ta†: ‘[...]ta’ R, RSkj, ‘[...]da’ RFJ, RJS

ek ‘I’

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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me

umb ‘about’

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1. um (prep.): about, around

at ‘the’

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3. at (prep.): at, to

síðr ‘less’

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2. síðr (adv.): less, hardly

orðin ‘words’

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orð (noun n.; °-s; -): word

fara ‘travel’

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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel

[8] fara: ‘f[...]a’ R, RFJ, ‘fa[...]’ RJS

þegar ‘as soon as’

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þegar (adv.): at once, then

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[8] þegar munninn líðr ‘as soon as they leave the mouth’: Lit. ‘as soon as the mouth closes’. The clause is impersonal, with munninn ‘the mouth’ as the acc. object (see Fritzner: líða 4). Cf. Vápnfirðinga saga (Vápnf ch. 7, ÍF 11, 40): Ferr orð, er munn líðr ‘A word travels when it leaves the mouth’. Wisén (1886-9, I) emends the Mhkv line accordingly: orðit ferr þás of munn líðr ‘a word travels when it leaves the mouth’.

munninn ‘the mouth’

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munnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): mouth

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líðr ‘they leave’

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1. líða (verb): move, glide

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Lines 3 and 6 are illegible in the ms. — [7]: Skj B silently construes this line as øngu tala ‘(I) speak in no way’, a reconstruction that fits awkwardly with the ms. evidence, where all illegible letters precede -ta. — [8]: This line has nine syllables that occupy seven metrical positions: fara ‘travel’ is resolved in the second lift and þegar ‘as soon as’ is neutralised in the second dip.

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Anon Mhkv 16III

Engi ‘No one’

þarf ‘needs’

at ‘to’

hræðask ‘fear’

hót ‘threats’

heldr ‘rather’

kømr ‘touch’

opt ‘often’

við ‘’

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sáran ‘a sore’

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fót ‘foot’

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hlutgjarn ‘a busybody’

ferr ‘conducts’

með ‘’

annars ‘another’s’

sǫk ‘suit’

Nøkkvi ‘something’

ríkstr ‘of a king’

er ‘is’

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heima ‘At home’

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hverr ‘each man’

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†ta† ‘…’

ek ‘I’

umb ‘about’

at ‘the’

síðr ‘less’

orðin ‘words’

fara ‘travel’

þegar ‘as soon as’

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munninn ‘the mouth’

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líðr ‘they leave’

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Anon Mhkv 16^III