Anon Morg 1III
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Morginsól 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 510.
Hefka ‘I do not’
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hafa (verb): have
opt ‘often’
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opt (adv.): often
enn ‘yet’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
notes
[1] enn ‘yet’: Finnur Jónsson understands W’s ‘enn’ as = en ‘but, and’. This edn, with Kock (Skald), understands an intercalary clause which is contrastive in sense from that of the main statement of the helmingr; the poet cannot keep his eyes off the woman, yet he acknowledges that she leads a good life, i.e. she is not being sexually provocative but cannot avoid attracting men’s attention because she is so beautiful.
ævi ‘life’
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ævi (noun f.; °-/-ar): life
ák ‘I must’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
fljóðs ‘of the woman’
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fljóð (noun n.): woman
lofa ‘praise’
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lofa (verb): praise, permit
góða ‘the good’
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góðr (adj.): good
enni ‘forehead’
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enni (noun n.; °-s; -): forehead, brow < ennileiptr (noun n.): forehead-lightning
kennings
ennileiptr‘forehead lightning ’
= EYE
forehead lightning → EYE
leiptr ‘lightning’
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2. leiptr (noun f.): lightning < ennileiptr (noun n.): forehead-lightning
kennings
ennileiptr‘forehead lightning ’
= EYE
forehead lightning → EYE
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
unnar ‘of the wave’
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2. unnr (noun f.): wave
kennings
unnar eldspǫng‘the fire-shard of the wave’
= WOMAN
the fire of the wave → GOLD
the shard of the GOLD → WOMAN
unnar ‘of the wave’
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2. unnr (noun f.): wave
kennings
unnar eldspǫng‘the fire-shard of the wave’
= WOMAN
the fire of the wave → GOLD
the shard of the GOLD → WOMAN
eld ‘of the fire’
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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire < eldspǫng (noun f.)
kennings
unnar eldspǫng‘the fire-shard of the wave’
= WOMAN
the fire of the wave → GOLD
the shard of the GOLD → WOMAN
eld ‘of the fire’
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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire < eldspǫng (noun f.)
kennings
unnar eldspǫng‘the fire-shard of the wave’
= WOMAN
the fire of the wave → GOLD
the shard of the GOLD → WOMAN
spǫng ‘the shard’
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spǫng (noun f.; °spangar/spengr; spengr): clasp < eldspǫng (noun f.)
kennings
unnar eldspǫng‘the fire-shard of the wave’
= WOMAN
the fire of the wave → GOLD
the shard of the GOLD → WOMAN
degi ‘day’
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dagr (noun m.; °-s, dat. degi/dag/dagi(Thom¹ 332¹n.); -ar): day
lǫngum ‘the live-long’
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langr (adj.; °compar. lengri, superl. lengstr): long
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This helmingr is quoted among stanzas that are extant only in ms. W of SnE (Skm) to illustrate kennings for the eyes. It is introduced there by the statement: Svá segir í Morginsól ‘Thus it says in Morginsól’ (so also 2368ˣ).
The poem’s title, Morginsól ‘Morning Sun’, may well be a metaphor for the beautiful woman the poet loves. Alternatively, it is possible that images comparing the woman to heavenly bodies and weather phenomena may have been a special feature of the poem. Too little of it survives to allow us to comprehend the semantic force of the title.
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