Anon Mv I 28VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 28’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 698-9.
Lúta ‘bow down’
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1. lúta (verb): (strong)
þier ‘to you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
þrautum ‘distress [lit. distresses]’
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þraut (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): struggle
þjóðir ‘People’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
dróttins ‘of the Lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
[2] dróttins: so 1032ˣ, ‘d[...]in[...]’ 721
kennings
móðir dróttins;‘mother of the Lord; ’
= Mary
mother of the Lord; → Mary
móðir ‘mother’
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móðir (noun f.): mother
kennings
móðir dróttins;‘mother of the Lord; ’
= Mary
mother of the Lord; → Mary
bergr ‘save’
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1. bjarga (verb; °bergr (biærgr Alk619 77⁹; biargr ÓH619 119¹); barg, burgu; borginn): to save, preserve
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
manni ‘a person’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
mörgum ‘many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
mest ‘the most’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
þá ‘when’
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2. þá (adv.): then
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
þurfa ‘need it’
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2. þurfa (verb): need, be necessary
flestir ‘they [lit. most]’
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fleiri (adj. comp.; °superl. flestr): more, most
Aldri ‘Never’
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aldri (adv.): never
muntu ‘will you’
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munu (verb): will, must
eldi ‘in fire’
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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire
[5] eldi: so 1032ˣ, ‘el[...]i’ 721
vilja ‘wish’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
brenna ‘to burn’
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2. brenna (verb; °brennr/brenn; brann, brunnu; brunninn): (strong, intransitive)
[6] brenna: brenni 721
notes
[6] brenna (inf.) ‘to burn’: Brenni (3rd pers. sg. or pl. pres. subj.) ‘should burn’ (so both mss) is ungrammatical, because the verb is part of an acc. inf. construction with vilja ‘want’.
þinn ‘of yours’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
þig ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
hefir ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
kunnað ‘known’
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kunna (verb): know, can, be able
þræl ‘servant’
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þræll (noun m.; °þrǽls, dat. þrǽli/þrǽl; þrǽlar): slave, servant
Máría ‘Mary’
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María (noun f.): Mary
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