Anon Mv I 27VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 27’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 697-8.
Heyrði ‘heard’
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2. heyra (verb): hear
sveit ‘The crowd’
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sveit (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): host, company
að ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
sæta ‘lady’
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1. sæta (noun f.; °-u; -ur): woman, lady
sæt ‘sweet’
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sœtr (adj.): sweet
leystir ‘released’
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leysa (verb): release, loosen, redeem
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
mætrar ‘of the splendid one’
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mætr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -astr): honoured, respected
hold ‘the flesh’
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hold (noun n.; °-s; -): flesh
ór ‘from’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
heitum ‘the hot’
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heitr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): hot, ardent
eldi ‘fire’
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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire
hlífandi ‘protecting’
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hlífa (verb): protect
notes
[4] svá lífi ‘thus the life’: The first letters are torn off in 721. The <í> in lífi is ensured by the internal rhyme (-íf- : -íf-). 1032ˣ has lífi ‘life’, and that reading is adopted by Kahle, Sperber and Wrightson. Skj B and Skald supply vífi ‘woman’. For hlífa lífi ‘save the life’ see st. 20/8 above.
lífi ‘life’
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líf (noun n.; °-s; -): life
[4] lífi: so 1032ˣ, ‘[...]’ 721FJ, ‘[...]fi’ 721
notes
[4] svá lífi ‘thus the life’: The first letters are torn off in 721. The <í> in lífi is ensured by the internal rhyme (-íf- : -íf-). 1032ˣ has lífi ‘life’, and that reading is adopted by Kahle, Sperber and Wrightson. Skj B and Skald supply vífi ‘woman’. For hlífa lífi ‘save the life’ see st. 20/8 above.
minnztu ‘remember’
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1. minna (verb): remind, remember, recall
minnandi ‘while remembering’
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1. minna (verb): remind, remember, recall
mestrar ‘the greatest one’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
[5] mestrar: ‘mestrar’(?) 721FJ, ‘me[...]ar’ 721, ‘meztar’ three dots or short strokes under ‑zt‑ 1032ˣ
meyja ‘Virgin’
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meyja (noun f.; °-u): maiden, virgin
kennings
Meyja guðs,‘Virgin of God, ’
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Virgin of God, → Mary
guðs ‘of God’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
kennings
Meyja guðs,‘Virgin of God, ’
= Mary
Virgin of God, → Mary
þá ‘when’
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2. þá (adv.): then
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
deyjum ‘we die’
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1. deyja (verb; °deyr; dó, dó(u); dá(i)nn): die
þínum ‘in your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
björtum ‘bright’
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bjartr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): bright
bænum ‘prayers’
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bœn (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): request, prayer
bál ‘the fire’
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bál (noun n.; °-s; -): fire
við ‘directed at’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
[8] við: við(?) 721FJ, ‘v[...]’ 721, ‘...’ 1032ˣ
notes
[8] við ‘against, directed at’: The last two letters are illegible in 721, but Finnur thought he could read við. ‘The fire directed at our souls’ is the fire of hell awaiting damned souls.
várum ‘our’
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várr (pron.; °f. ór/vár; pl. órir/várir): our
sálum ‘souls’
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sál (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): soul
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This and the next st. recall the Hail Mary: Ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora mortis nostrae ‘Pray for us sinners now and in the hour of our death’. See also Mv II 23 and Mv III 29. — [5-8]: For the present interpretation, see Wrightson. Line 5 is clearly corrupt, and it is difficult to reconstruct. It contains three alliterating staves, and the internal rhymes fall in metrical positions one and two. The reconstruction of the last word of the l. is conjectural. Earlier eds have tried to restore the reading in various ways. Skald reconstructs l. 5 as firr, minnandi mærrar ‘remove, remembering the glorious one’ (see NN §1690). This gives the following reading of the helmingr: ‘Virgin of God, when remembering the glorious one, remove with your bright prayers the fire from our souls when we die’. Skj B emends minnztu to forða ‘save’, but that verb takes the dat. (bál ‘fire’ [l. 8] is in the acc.). Furthermore, the translation ‘save the fire from our souls’ makes little sense. For the verb minnaz (minnztu imp. sg.) ‘remember’ with the acc., see NS §131, Anm.
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