Anon Mv III 16VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur III 16’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 727-8.
Eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[1-2] eg mun eigi þræta það við þig ‘I shall not argue that with you’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): þat er eigi vidrkvæmiligt, at eg disputera uid ydr leingi ‘it is not seemly, that I dispute with you for long’.
mun ‘shall’
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munu (verb): will, must
notes
[1-2] eg mun eigi þræta það við þig ‘I shall not argue that with you’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): þat er eigi vidrkvæmiligt, at eg disputera uid ydr leingi ‘it is not seemly, that I dispute with you for long’.
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
notes
[1-2] eg mun eigi þræta það við þig ‘I shall not argue that with you’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): þat er eigi vidrkvæmiligt, at eg disputera uid ydr leingi ‘it is not seemly, that I dispute with you for long’.
það ‘that’
notes
[1] það við þig ‘that with you’: We should have expected a short disyllabic word instead of the two words það við ‘that with’ (it is unlikely that the enclitic prep. við ‘with’ could carry stress). — [1-2] eg mun eigi þræta það við þig ‘I shall not argue that with you’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): þat er eigi vidrkvæmiligt, at eg disputera uid ydr leingi ‘it is not seemly, that I dispute with you for long’.
það ‘that’
notes
[1] það við þig ‘that with you’: We should have expected a short disyllabic word instead of the two words það við ‘that with’ (it is unlikely that the enclitic prep. við ‘with’ could carry stress). — [1-2] eg mun eigi þræta það við þig ‘I shall not argue that with you’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): þat er eigi vidrkvæmiligt, at eg disputera uid ydr leingi ‘it is not seemly, that I dispute with you for long’.
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
notes
[1] það við þig ‘that with you’: We should have expected a short disyllabic word instead of the two words það við ‘that with’ (it is unlikely that the enclitic prep. við ‘with’ could carry stress). — [1-2] eg mun eigi þræta það við þig ‘I shall not argue that with you’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): þat er eigi vidrkvæmiligt, at eg disputera uid ydr leingi ‘it is not seemly, that I dispute with you for long’.
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
notes
[1] það við þig ‘that with you’: We should have expected a short disyllabic word instead of the two words það við ‘that with’ (it is unlikely that the enclitic prep. við ‘with’ could carry stress). — [1-2] eg mun eigi þræta það við þig ‘I shall not argue that with you’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): þat er eigi vidrkvæmiligt, at eg disputera uid ydr leingi ‘it is not seemly, that I dispute with you for long’.
þig ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
notes
[1] það við þig ‘that with you’: We should have expected a short disyllabic word instead of the two words það við ‘that with’ (it is unlikely that the enclitic prep. við ‘with’ could carry stress). — [1-2] eg mun eigi þræta það við þig ‘I shall not argue that with you’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): þat er eigi vidrkvæmiligt, at eg disputera uid ydr leingi ‘it is not seemly, that I dispute with you for long’.
þig ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
notes
[1] það við þig ‘that with you’: We should have expected a short disyllabic word instead of the two words það við ‘that with’ (it is unlikely that the enclitic prep. við ‘with’ could carry stress). — [1-2] eg mun eigi þræta það við þig ‘I shall not argue that with you’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): þat er eigi vidrkvæmiligt, at eg disputera uid ydr leingi ‘it is not seemly, that I dispute with you for long’.
þræta ‘argue’
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2. þræta (verb): argue
notes
[1-2] eg mun eigi þræta það við þig ‘I shall not argue that with you’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): þat er eigi vidrkvæmiligt, at eg disputera uid ydr leingi ‘it is not seemly, that I dispute with you for long’.
kvað ‘said’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
meyin ‘Virgin’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
sæt ‘the sweet’
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sœtr (adj.): sweet
guðs ‘of God’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
notes
[3-4] banablóð guðs hefir leyst hann frá banni ‘the death-blood of God has delivered him from damnation’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): er leystr uar med blodi sonar mins ‘who was delivered by the blood of my son’.
hefir ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
notes
[3-4] banablóð guðs hefir leyst hann frá banni ‘the death-blood of God has delivered him from damnation’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): er leystr uar med blodi sonar mins ‘who was delivered by the blood of my son’.
bana ‘the death’
notes
[3-4] banablóð guðs hefir leyst hann frá banni ‘the death-blood of God has delivered him from damnation’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): er leystr uar med blodi sonar mins ‘who was delivered by the blood of my son’.
blóð ‘blood’
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blóð (noun n.; °-s): blood < banablóð (noun n.): °blood shed at (sby’s) death; of the blood of Jesus and of the blood of martyrs)
notes
[3-4] banablóð guðs hefir leyst hann frá banni ‘the death-blood of God has delivered him from damnation’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): er leystr uar med blodi sonar mins ‘who was delivered by the blood of my son’.
banni ‘damnation’
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bann (noun n.; °-s; *-): ban
notes
[3-4] banablóð guðs hefir leyst hann frá banni ‘the death-blood of God has delivered him from damnation’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): er leystr uar med blodi sonar mins ‘who was delivered by the blood of my son’.
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
notes
[3-4] banablóð guðs hefir leyst hann frá banni ‘the death-blood of God has delivered him from damnation’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): er leystr uar med blodi sonar mins ‘who was delivered by the blood of my son’.
leyst ‘delivered’
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leysa (verb): release, loosen, redeem
notes
[3-4] banablóð guðs hefir leyst hann frá banni ‘the death-blood of God has delivered him from damnation’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): er leystr uar med blodi sonar mins ‘who was delivered by the blood of my son’.
hann ‘him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[3-4] banablóð guðs hefir leyst hann frá banni ‘the death-blood of God has delivered him from damnation’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): er leystr uar med blodi sonar mins ‘who was delivered by the blood of my son’.
Býð ‘summon’
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bjóða (verb; °býðr; bauð, buðu; boðinn (buð- Thom¹ 5²n.)): offer, order, invite
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
mens ‘of the neck-ring’
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2. men (noun n.; °; dat. menjum): neck-ring
kennings
meiðs mens‘of the tree of the neck-ring ’
= MAN
the tree of the neck-ring → MAN
notes
[5] meiðs mens ‘of the tree of the neck-ring [MAN]’: Wrightson retains meið (m. acc. sg.) ‘tree’ and treats meið mens ‘tree of the necklace’ as a parallel construction to klerks sál ‘the cleric’s soul’. That requires that býð ‘summon’ is taken in the meaning ‘offer’ (which takes the acc. rather than the dat.; however, Wrightson still reads ‘summon’) and leaves því máli (n. dat. sg.) ‘that case’ as an unexplained adv. translated as ‘in this case’. It is likely that the reference to the cleric and his soul as two separate entities reflects the medieval notion of the separation of the soul of a dead person from his body.
kennings
meiðs mens‘of the tree of the neck-ring ’
= MAN
the tree of the neck-ring → MAN
notes
[5] meiðs mens ‘of the tree of the neck-ring [MAN]’: Wrightson retains meið (m. acc. sg.) ‘tree’ and treats meið mens ‘tree of the necklace’ as a parallel construction to klerks sál ‘the cleric’s soul’. That requires that býð ‘summon’ is taken in the meaning ‘offer’ (which takes the acc. rather than the dat.; however, Wrightson still reads ‘summon’) and leaves því máli (n. dat. sg.) ‘that case’ as an unexplained adv. translated as ‘in this case’. It is likely that the reference to the cleric and his soul as two separate entities reflects the medieval notion of the separation of the soul of a dead person from his body.
máli ‘case’
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1. mál (noun n.; °-s; -): speech, matter
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
klerks ‘the cleric’s’
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klerkr (noun m.; °-s dat. -/-i; -ar, acc. -a/-u): cleric
sál ‘soul’
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sál (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): soul
að ‘’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
sönnu ‘truly’
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1. sannr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i;): true
fyrir ‘before’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
son ‘son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
minn ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
sier ‘sees’
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2. sjá (verb): see
notes
[8] hann sier, það er riett er ‘he sees what is right’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): Sonr minn tynir alldri sinu rettlæti ‘My son never loses his righteousness’.
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[8] hann sier, það er riett er ‘he sees what is right’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): Sonr minn tynir alldri sinu rettlæti ‘My son never loses his righteousness’.
það ‘what’
notes
[8] hann sier, það er riett er ‘he sees what is right’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): Sonr minn tynir alldri sinu rettlæti ‘My son never loses his righteousness’.
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
notes
[8] hann sier, það er riett er ‘he sees what is right’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): Sonr minn tynir alldri sinu rettlæti ‘My son never loses his righteousness’.
riett ‘right’
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3. réttr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): right, straight, direct
notes
[8] hann sier, það er riett er ‘he sees what is right’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): Sonr minn tynir alldri sinu rettlæti ‘My son never loses his righteousness’.
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
notes
[8] hann sier, það er riett er ‘he sees what is right’: Cf. Mar (1871, 606): Sonr minn tynir alldri sinu rettlæti ‘My son never loses his righteousness’.
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