Anon Mhkv 22III
Roberta Frank (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Málsháttakvæði 22’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1236.
Grandvarr ‘circumspect’
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grandvarr (adj.): circumspect, wary
[1] Grandvarr: ‘[...]randvarr’ R, Grandvarr RFJ
skyldi ‘should’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
inn ‘The’
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2. inn (art.): the
góði ‘good’
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góðr (adj.): good
maðr ‘man’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
Gizurr ‘Gizurr’
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Gizurr (noun m.): Gizurr
notes
[2] Gizurr ‘Gizurr <= Óðinn>’: For this heiti for Óðinn, see also Notes to Refr Giz 3/2 and Þul Óðins 1/5.
varð ‘proved’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
at ‘in’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
rógi ‘slander’
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róg (noun n.; °-s): strife, slander
saðr ‘true’
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2. sannr (adj.; °-an; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): true
etja ‘to incite’
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2. etja (verb; °atti): incite
vildi ‘he wanted’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
jǫfrum ‘kings’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
saman ‘against each other’
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saman (adv.): together
ekki ‘no’
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2. ekki (adv.): not
er ‘have’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
mér ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
at ‘in’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
stúru ‘gloom’
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1. stúra (noun f.; °-u): [gloom]
gaman ‘delight’
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gaman (noun n.): joy, pleasure
Kunna ‘to be able’
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kunna (verb): know, can, be able
vildak ‘I would like’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
sjá ‘to avoid’
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2. sjá (verb): see
við ‘’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
snǫrum ‘snares’
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snarr (adj.): gallant, bold
sjaldan ‘seldom’
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sjaldan (adv.): seldom
hykk ‘I think’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
at ‘’
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4. at (conj.): that
gyggvi ‘startled’
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gyggja (verb): [startled]
notes
[6] gyggvi ‘is … startled’: This is 3rd pers. sg. pres. subj. of gyggva which, when construed impersonally with a dat. obj. (here, vǫrum ‘the wary man’) means ‘be startled, startles’. The word is attested in poetry only here and in ÞjJ Lv 1/8VIII (ÞJ 1) but occurs in religious prose where it collocates, as here, with the adj. varr ‘wary, cautious’.
vǫrum ‘the wary man’
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2. varr (adj.): wary
vel ‘well’
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vel (adv.): well, very
hefr ‘comes off’
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hafa (verb): have
hinn ‘he’
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2. inn (art.): the
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
sitr ‘tends’
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sitja (verb): sit
of ‘’
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3. of (prep.): around, from; too
sitt ‘his own’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
svart ‘black’
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svartr (adj.): black < svartflekkóttr (adj.)
notes
[8] svartflekkótt ‘black-flecked’: Looking like a cow- or sheep-skin with unsightly dark spots; only here in poetry. This trisyllabic metrical heavyweight was no doubt intended by the poet to illustrate his rude art. See ONP: bláflekkóttr ‘black-flecked’.
flekkótt ‘flecked’
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flekkóttr (adj.): [flecked] < svartflekkóttr (adj.)
[8] ‑flekkótt: ‘‑flecko[…]’ R, ‘‑fleckott’ RFJ
notes
[8] svartflekkótt ‘black-flecked’: Looking like a cow- or sheep-skin with unsightly dark spots; only here in poetry. This trisyllabic metrical heavyweight was no doubt intended by the poet to illustrate his rude art. See ONP: bláflekkóttr ‘black-flecked’.
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
kvæði ‘poem’
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kvæði (noun n.; °-s; -): poem
mitt ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
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[3]: On Óðinn’s self-described role as whetter, using the same formula as here, see Hárb 24/3 (NK 82): atta ec iǫfrom ‘I incited the chieftains’. See also RvHbreiðm Hl 45/8. — [6]: Cf. Hávm 6/6 (NK 18): sialdan verðr víti vorom ‘seldom does woe befall the wary’.
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