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Anon Mv III 29VII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur III 29’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 737.

Anonymous PoemsMáríuvísur III
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Máría ‘Mary’

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María (noun f.): Mary

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gief ‘give’

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gefa (verb): give

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‘who’

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eð (conj.): who, which

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sjúkr ‘sick’

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sjúkr (adj.): ill, sick

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linun ‘comfort’

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linun (noun f.; °linanar/linunar): [comfort]

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‘so that’

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4. at (conj.): that

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pín ‘torment’

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pín (noun f.; °; -ir): torture

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líði ‘may pass’

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1. líða (verb): move, glide

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er ‘which’

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2. er (conj.): who, which, when

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því ‘because’

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því (adv.): therefore, because

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‘’

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4. at (conj.): that

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ór ‘from’

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3. ór (prep.): out of

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hæst ‘highest’

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hœgri (adj. comp.): higher, highest

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[5] hæst blóm ‘highest blossom’: For terms of this type for the Virgin Mary, see Schottmann (1973, 21-34).

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blóm ‘blossom’

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blóm (noun n.; °-s; -): flower

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[5] hæst blóm ‘highest blossom’: For terms of this type for the Virgin Mary, see Schottmann (1973, 21-34).

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hieðan ‘away’

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heðan (adv.): hence, from this place

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trúi ‘believe’

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2. trúa (verb): to believe (in)

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oss ‘us’

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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our

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[6] oss ... kveðr ‘us ... will call’: Skj B and Skald insert the conj. er ‘when’ before oss ‘us’, which gives the following translation of the second helmingr: ‘because I believe, highest blossom, that, when the true God, your son, calls us away from this world, your words will save the souls’. Wrightson makes no emendations and gives the following translation: ‘because I believe that true God, your son, will call us hence out of the world; may your speech save souls’. The problem with both readings is that they presuppose a suppressed conj. ‘that’ (eg trúi, ‘I believe that’), and that conj. cannot be omitted.

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kveðr ‘will call’

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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet

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[6] oss ... kveðr ‘us ... will call’: Skj B and Skald insert the conj. er ‘when’ before oss ‘us’, which gives the following translation of the second helmingr: ‘because I believe, highest blossom, that, when the true God, your son, calls us away from this world, your words will save the souls’. Wrightson makes no emendations and gives the following translation: ‘because I believe that true God, your son, will call us hence out of the world; may your speech save souls’. The problem with both readings is that they presuppose a suppressed conj. ‘that’ (eg trúi, ‘I believe that’), and that conj. cannot be omitted.

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þinn ‘your’

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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your

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sálum ‘souls’

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sál (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): soul

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[8]: The word amen is added after the last word of the l. in 721.

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hjálpi ‘help’

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1. hjalpa (verb): help

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[8]: The word amen is added after the last word of the l. in 721.

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þitt ‘your’

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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your

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[8]: The word amen is added after the last word of the l. in 721.

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mál ‘plea’

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

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[8]: The word amen is added after the last word of the l. in 721.

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For the echoes of Hail Mary (ora pro nobis ‘pray for us’), see Notes to Mv I 28. — [5-8]: The last helmingr is difficult syntactically.

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