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Anon Mv III 1VII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur III 1’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 719.

Anonymous PoemsMáríuvísur III
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Dróttinn ‘Lord’

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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master

[1] Dróttinn: ‘[...]Rottínn’ 721

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gief ‘give’

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gefa (verb): give

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[1] gief þú (imp. sg.) ‘give’: Skj B emends to gefa (inf.) ‘give’ which is taken as an inf. modified by mátt (2nd pers. sg. pres. indic.) of mega ‘be able to’. In the present edn mátt is m. acc. sg. of máttr ‘power’ (so also Skald and Wrightson).

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þú ‘’

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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you

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[1] gief þú (imp. sg.) ‘give’: Skj B emends to gefa (inf.) ‘give’ which is taken as an inf. modified by mátt (2nd pers. sg. pres. indic.) of mega ‘be able to’. In the present edn mátt is m. acc. sg. of máttr ‘power’ (so also Skald and Wrightson).

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bragar ‘a poetic’

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bragr (noun m.; °-ar): poem, poetry < bragarháttr (noun m.): °poetic verse-form; (name of) a verse-form in which the alliterating syllables in the 1st and 3rd lines are far apart but the syllables containing half-rhyme are separated by only one syllable

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[2] bragarhátt ‘poetic form’: This cpd can also be used synonymously with bragarbót ‘poetic improvement’, which is a term for a metre in Ht (see SnE 1999, 43 n. 31/1 and Note to Mv I 1/3).

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svá ‘so’

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svá (adv.): so, thus

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‘that’

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4. at (conj.): that

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færði ‘might bring’

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2. fœra (verb): bring

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orð ‘words’

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orð (noun n.; °-s; -): word

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faðir ‘Father’

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faðir (noun m.): father

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í ‘into’

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í (prep.): in, into

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stað ‘place’

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1. staðr (noun m.; °-ar/-s; -ir): place

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Veittu ‘lead’

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2. veita (verb): grant, give

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[5] veittu ‘lead’: For this meaning of the verb, see Fritzner: veita 1.

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fyrir ‘by’

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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of

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vald ‘might’

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vald (noun n.; °-s; *-): strength, power

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þitt ‘your’

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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your

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valdandi ‘ruler’

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1. valdandi (noun m.): ruler

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um ‘for’

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1. um (prep.): about, around

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ástar ‘of love’

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ást (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): love

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í ‘into’

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í (prep.): in, into

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opið ‘open’

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opinn (adj.): open, gaping

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brjóst ‘breast’

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brjóst (noun n.; °-s; -): breast, chest

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óttalausa ‘a fearless’

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óttalauss (adj.): fearless

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máls ‘of words’

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1. mál (noun n.; °-s; -): speech, matter

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tt ‘wealth’

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gnótt (noun f.): abundance

[8] tt: ‘nogt’ 721

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