Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 13’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 688-9.
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2. gráta (verb): weep
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
[1] meyjar: ‘[...]iar’ 721, ‘m...nar’ 1032ˣ, ‘meyiar’ 721FJ
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mætr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -astr): honoured, respected
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minniligr (adj.): memorable
[2] minniligr: ‘minni[...]’ 721, minnilig 1032ˣ, 721FJ
[2] minniligr (m. nom. sg.) ‘memorable’: The ending is torn off in 721. 1032ˣ and 721FJ have minnilig (f. nom. sg. or n. nom. or acc. pl.) ‘memorable’. The adj. modifies flokkrinn (m. nom. sg.) ‘the group’ and the emendation to minniligr (m. nom. sg.) ‘memorable’ is in keeping with earlier eds.
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sem (conj.): as, which
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kvenna (noun f.; °-u): woman, wife
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flokkr (noun m.): group, flock
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karl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): (old) man < karlmaðr (noun m.): man
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maðr (noun m.): man, person < karlmaðr (noun m.): man
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1. kløkkva (verb): cry, sob
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kvǫl (noun f.; °-ar; -ar/-ir): torment, torture
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barma (verb; °-að-): [pitying]
[4] barmandi: ‘bar[...]ndi’ 721, ‘bar...andi’ 1032ˣ, barmandi 721FJ
[4] barmandi ‘pitying’: Finnur read barmandi in Skj A. The <m> is ensured by the internal rhyme (-arm- : arm-).
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2. armr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): wretched
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2. draga (verb; °dregr; dró, drógu; dreginn/droget(Hirð NKS 1642 4° 146v²⁹; cf. [$962$])): drag, pull, draw
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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drós (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): lady
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skógr (noun m.; °-ar/-s, dat. -i; -ar): forest
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dapr (adj.): gloomy
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
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2. mœða (verb): weary
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svá (adv.): so, thus
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3. hræða (verb): fear, be afraid
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2. gráta (verb): weep
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sárliga (adv.): bitterly, painfully
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1. sæta (noun f.; °-u; -ur): woman, lady
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synð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): sin
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
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bál (noun n.; °-s; -): fire
[8] kyndu (3rd pers. pl. pret. indic.) ‘they kindled’: So Skj B. Kyndir (3rd pers. sg. pres. indic.) ‘kindles’ (so 721) is ungrammatical. Sperber retains that form and treats it as an impersonal construction with bálið ‘the pyre’, as the acc. object (so also Wrightson). However, kynda ‘kindle’ is not attested in impersonal constructions. Skald emends to kyndiz (3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. m.v.) ‘is kindled’, which is also a possible reading.
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