Anon Mv I 21VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 21’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 693-4.
Öld ‘People’
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ǫld (noun f.; °; aldir): people, age
af ‘with’
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af (prep.): from
fjandskap ‘animosity’
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fjándskapr (noun m.): [animosity]
fyldiz ‘filled’
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fylla (verb): fill
fljótt ‘quickly’
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2. fljótr (adj.): quick
er ‘when’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
sýndi ‘showed’
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sýna (verb): show, seem
dróttinn ‘the Lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
vægð ‘mercy’
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vægð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): mercy
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
virðar ‘men’
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virðr (noun m.): man
sögðu ‘said’
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segja (verb): say, tell
villir ‘erring’
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villr (adj.): astray, erring, crazed
sín ‘themselves’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
á ‘’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
milli ‘among’
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milli (prep.): between
neyti ‘wood’
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neyti (noun n.): company < eldsneyti (noun n.): °fuel; use of fire
hafa ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
ýtar ‘The impellers’
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ýtir (noun m.): giver
kennings
‘Ýtar rítar‘‘The impellers of the shield ’
= WARRIORS
‘The impellers of the shield → WARRIORS
notes
[5, 6] ýtar rítar ‘the impellers of the shield [WARRIORS]’: ‘rítri’ (so 721) is not an ON word. The form has been emended to rítar (f. gen. sg.) ‘of the shield’ to provide a determinant for ýtar ‘impellers, pushers’ in keeping with other eds. For rítar ‘of the shield’ as a determinant in a kenning for ‘man’, see Mv III 4/1. Otherwise, ýtar in itself can mean ‘men’ in general.
oflítið ‘too little’
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oflítill (adj.): [too little]
gjört ‘prepared’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
kennings
‘Ýtar rítar‘‘The impellers of the shield ’
= WARRIORS
‘The impellers of the shield → WARRIORS
notes
[5, 6] ýtar rítar ‘the impellers of the shield [WARRIORS]’: ‘rítri’ (so 721) is not an ON word. The form has been emended to rítar (f. gen. sg.) ‘of the shield’ to provide a determinant for ýtar ‘impellers, pushers’ in keeping with other eds. For rítar ‘of the shield’ as a determinant in a kenning for ‘man’, see Mv III 4/1. Otherwise, ýtar in itself can mean ‘men’ in general.
því ‘therefore’
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því (adv.): therefore, because
hefir ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
minst ‘the least’
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3. minni (adj. comp.; °superl. minnstr): less, least
in ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
kennings
in mjóva mengrund‘the slender necklace-ground ’
= WOMAN
the slender necklace-ground → WOMAN
mjóva ‘slender’
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mjór (adj.; °mjóvan; comp. mjór(r)i/mjár(r)i, superl. -str/mjóvastr): slender
kennings
in mjóva mengrund‘the slender necklace-ground ’
= WOMAN
the slender necklace-ground → WOMAN
men ‘necklace’
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2. men (noun n.; °; dat. menjum): neck-ring < mengrund (noun f.)
kennings
in mjóva mengrund‘the slender necklace-ground ’
= WOMAN
the slender necklace-ground → WOMAN
grund ‘ground’
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grund (noun f.): earth, land < mengrund (noun f.)
[8] ‑grund: ‘grvd’ 721
kennings
in mjóva mengrund‘the slender necklace-ground ’
= WOMAN
the slender necklace-ground → WOMAN
af ‘with’
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af (prep.): from
kvöl ‘torment’
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kvǫl (noun f.; °-ar; -ar/-ir): torment, torture
brunnið ‘burned’
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2. brenna (verb; °brennr/brenn; brann, brunnu; brunninn): (strong, intransitive)
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The corresponding passages in Mar (1871, 278, 1203) read as follows: heldr segia þeir sva litit elldzneytið orðit hafa, at konan møtti eigi brenna ‘rather, they say that the firewood had been so scant that the woman could not burn’; helldr segia þeir, at elldrinn var oflitill ‘rather, they say that the fire was far too small’. See also Schottmann (1973, 363).
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