Anon Mhkv 19III
Roberta Frank (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Málsháttakvæði 19’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1233.
Lýtin ‘flaws’
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2. lýti (noun n.; °-s; -): fault, sin
þykkja ‘seem’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
skammæ ‘of short duration’
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skammær (adj.): short-lived
skarar ‘A haircut’s’
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skǫr (noun f.; °skarar; skarir): hair, planking
skrautligt ‘‘glorious’’
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skrautligr (adj.): fine, splendid
notes
[2] skrautligt ‘“glorious”’: For skraut ‘splendour, magnificence’ associated with a naval expedition, see SnSt Ht 70/7 skrautfǫr ‘splendour-expedition’ and Anon Pl 38/7VII skrautvalr ‘adornment-horse [SHIP]’.
kǫllum ‘we call’
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kalla (verb): call
notes
[2] kǫllum ‘we call’: The ms. has kǫllum vér (‘kavllum ver’) and Skj B and Skald, following Wisén (1886-9, I), delete the following pron. vér as unmetrical.
nafnit ‘the name’
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nafn (noun n.; °-s; *-): name
farar ‘of an expedition’
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fǫr (noun f.): journey, fate; movement
trautt ‘scarcely’
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trauðr (adj.): reluctant
kallak ‘declare’
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kalla (verb): call
valda ‘to be the cause’
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valda (verb): cause
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
varar ‘warns’
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1. vǫr (noun f.; °varar; varir/varar): landing-stage
verða ‘there are’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
menn ‘men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
er ‘end’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
uppi ‘up’
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uppi (adv.): up, up in
fjarar ‘high and dry’
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fjarr (adj.): [high and dry]
Ógipt ‘Misfortune’
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ógift (noun f.): [Misfortune]
verðr ‘is’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
umbúð ‘preparation’
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umbúð (noun f.): preparation, outfit
skjót ‘quick’
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2. skjótr (adj.): quick(ly)
élin ‘snowstorms’
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él (noun n.; °; dat. -um): storm
þykkja ‘seem’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
mǫrgum ‘to many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
ljót ‘ugly’
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ljótr (adj.): ugly
engi ‘no one’
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2. engi (pron.): no, none
of ‘’
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3. of (prep.): around, from; too
notes
[7] of: Correct use of the expletive particle (see Note to st. 10/5).
sér ‘’
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sik (pron.; °gen. sín, dat. sér): (refl. pron.)
við ‘’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
ǫllum ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
rokum ‘sudden gusts’
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rok (noun n.): [sudden gusts]
jafnan ‘always’
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jafnan (adv.): always
spyrja ‘ask’
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spyrja (verb; spurði): ask; hear, find out
menn ‘people’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
at ‘about’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
lokum ‘a conclusion’
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1. lok (noun n.; °-s; -): end
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A haircut’s flaws seem of short duration; we call the name of an expedition ‘glorious’; I scarcely declare the one who warns to be the cause; men there are who end up high and dry. Misfortune is quick in preparation; snowstorms seem ugly to many; no one avoids all sudden gusts; people always ask about a conclusion.
[3]: Cf. Njáls saga (Nj ch. 41, ÍF 12, 106): veldrat sá, er varar ‘he who gives warning is not the cause’; Hrafnkels saga (Hrafnk ch. 3, ÍF 11, 102): eigi veldr sá, er varar annan ‘he who warns another is not the cause’. — [4]: Wisén (1886-9, I) adopts the emendation of Jón Þorkelsson (in Möbius 1874, 615), who substituted þar’s (þar er) ‘where’ for þeir’s ‘who’. For fjara e-n uppi ‘strand (sby or sth.), leave high and dry’ used impersonally with the acc., see Fritzner: fjara. Fjara (f.) is the part of the beach left dry at ebb tide. — [7]: A known proverb: see, e.g., Grettis saga (Gr ch. 52, ÍF 7, 169): eigi má nú við ǫllu sjá ‘one can’t guard against everything now’. — [8]: The same proverb occurs as an addition to the Latin source in Anon Hsv 99/6VII æ spyrr lýðr at lokum ‘people always find out about a conclusion’. Lok (pl.) ‘conclusions, ends’ comes just before the final stanza of the stefjabálkr; cf. SnSt Ht 102/4 þats kvæðis lok ‘that is the end of the poem’; Anon Leið 45/1, 4VII lok bragar þessa ‘[the company shall now look on] the end of this poem’.
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