Anon Mv I 8VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 8’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 684.
Brann ‘burned’
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2. brenna (verb; °brennr/brenn; brann, brunnu; brunninn): (strong, intransitive)
notes
[1] brann (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic.) ‘burned’: The verb is in the sg., but it has a pl. subject (see NS §70).
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
brjósti ‘breast’
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brjóst (noun n.; °-s; -): breast, chest
hennar ‘her’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
bæði ‘Both’
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báðir (pron.; °gen. beggja (báðra), nom./acc. n. bǽði): both
grimd ‘ferocity’
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grimmð (noun f.): ferocity
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
æði ‘frenzy’
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1. œði (noun f.): fury
fyld ‘pent-up’
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fylla (verb): fill
notes
[3] fyld (f. nom. sg.) ‘pent-up’: Lit. ‘filled’. This adj. modifies æði (f. nom. sg.) ‘frenzy’. It could also be taken with húsfrú (f. nom. sg.) ‘housewife’, in which case fyld bæði grimd og æði ‘filled with both ferocity and frenzy’ (ll. 1-2) must be construed as dat. instr., and l. 1 would be an impersonal cl.: ‘it burned in her breast’ (see Sperber). However, the adj. fyldr ‘filled’ usually takes the gen. case (see LP: fylla). Skj B translates fyld as i fuldt mål ‘in full measure’, but the syntax of that construction is unclear. Sperber takes fyld as an unattested noun ‘fulness’ with æði as a gen. ‘of frenzy’.
er ‘when’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
hús ‘the house’
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hús (noun n.; °-s; -): house < húsfrú (noun f.)
frú ‘wife’
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frú (noun f.): lady < húsfrú (noun f.)
vildi ‘wanted’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
forðaz ‘to save herself’
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forða (verb): escape, avoid
slíku ‘from such’
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2. slíkr (adj.): such
orði ‘a rumour’
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orð (noun n.; °-s; -): word
svá ‘so’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
að ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
af ‘because of’
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af (prep.): from
sorgum ‘sorrows’
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sorg (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): sorrow, affliction
nýjum ‘renewed’
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nýr (adj.; °nýjan; compar. nýrri, superl. nýjastr): new
sáran ‘the bitter’
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sárr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): sore, painful; wounded
dauð ‘death’
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1. dauðr (noun m.; °-s): death
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
fári ‘wrath’
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2. fár (noun n.; °-s): harm, danger
urðu ‘ensued’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
illar ‘wicked’
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illr (adj.): bad, evil, unwell
gjörðir ‘actions’
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1. gerð (noun f.): deed
affíni ‘son-in-law’
notes
[8] affíni ‘son-in-law’: Lit. ‘relative by marriage’ (not in LP). This is a loanword from Lat. (affīnis ‘relative by marriage’), which has led some scholars to speculate that the poet worked from a Lat. version of the text (see Introduction above).
rieð ‘she plotted’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
sínum ‘of her’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
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[3]: The l. is unmetrical because the second alliteration falls in position four on the second element of the cpd húsfrú ‘housewife’. Sperber accordingly emends to frú sú ‘that woman’.
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