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Anon Mv III 5VII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur III 5’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 721.

Anonymous PoemsMáríuvísur III
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Sefi ‘mind’

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2. sefi (noun m.): mind

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gjörðiz ‘became’

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1. gera (verb): do, make

[1] gjörðiz: so 1032ˣ, ‘giordi[...]’ 721

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saurlífr ‘lecherous’

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saurlífr (adj.): lecherous, depraved

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sárum ‘with bitterness(es) [lit. hurts]’

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2. sár (noun n.; °-s; -): wound

[2] sárum …: ‘sárum f[...]t’ 721, ‘sarum l..tit’ 1032ˣ

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[2]: The reading of the l. cannot be restored. After sárum (m. dat. pl.) ‘with hurts, with bitternesses’ a word is erased and illegible.

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… ‘…’

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[2] sárum …: ‘sárum f[...]t’ 721, ‘sarum l..tit’ 1032ˣ

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[2]: The reading of the l. cannot be restored. After sárum (m. dat. pl.) ‘with hurts, with bitternesses’ a word is erased and illegible.

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hugar ‘the mind’

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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage < hugarfár (noun n.)

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[2]: The reading of the l. cannot be restored. After sárum (m. dat. pl.) ‘with hurts, with bitternesses’ a word is erased and illegible. — [2] hugarfár (n. nom. or acc. sg. or pl.) ‘the mind-danger’: This is most likely the subject of the defective cl., and the missing word must be the verb. Skald supplies óx ‘grew’ (see NN §2872) and Sperber gives sárt var þat hugar fár ‘bitter was that danger of the mind’. Neither reading is supported by the mss.

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hugar ‘the mind’

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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage < hugarfár (noun n.)

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[2]: The reading of the l. cannot be restored. After sárum (m. dat. pl.) ‘with hurts, with bitternesses’ a word is erased and illegible. — [2] hugarfár (n. nom. or acc. sg. or pl.) ‘the mind-danger’: This is most likely the subject of the defective cl., and the missing word must be the verb. Skald supplies óx ‘grew’ (see NN §2872) and Sperber gives sárt var þat hugar fár ‘bitter was that danger of the mind’. Neither reading is supported by the mss.

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fár ‘danger’

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2. fár (noun n.; °-s): harm, danger < hugarfár (noun n.)

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[2]: The reading of the l. cannot be restored. After sárum (m. dat. pl.) ‘with hurts, with bitternesses’ a word is erased and illegible. — [2] hugarfár (n. nom. or acc. sg. or pl.) ‘the mind-danger’: This is most likely the subject of the defective cl., and the missing word must be the verb. Skald supplies óx ‘grew’ (see NN §2872) and Sperber gives sárt var þat hugar fár ‘bitter was that danger of the mind’. Neither reading is supported by the mss.

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fár ‘danger’

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2. fár (noun n.; °-s): harm, danger < hugarfár (noun n.)

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[2]: The reading of the l. cannot be restored. After sárum (m. dat. pl.) ‘with hurts, with bitternesses’ a word is erased and illegible. — [2] hugarfár (n. nom. or acc. sg. or pl.) ‘the mind-danger’: This is most likely the subject of the defective cl., and the missing word must be the verb. Skald supplies óx ‘grew’ (see NN §2872) and Sperber gives sárt var þat hugar fár ‘bitter was that danger of the mind’. Neither reading is supported by the mss.

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lýtanna ‘of sins’

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2. lýti (noun n.; °-s; -): fault, sin

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logi ‘flame’

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logi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): flame

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heitr ‘hot’

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heitr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): hot, ardent

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lerkað ‘tormented’

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lerka (verb): [tormented]

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fekk ‘’

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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive

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þann ‘that’

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1. sá (pron.; °gen. þess, dat. þeim, acc. þann; f. sú, gen. þeirrar, acc. þá; n. þat, dat. því; pl. m. þeir, f. þǽ---): that (one), those

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klerk ‘cleric’

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klerkr (noun m.; °-s dat. -/-i; -ar, acc. -a/-u): cleric

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hverja ‘every’

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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every

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nótt ‘night’

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nátt (noun f.; °náttar/nǽtr, dat. -/-u; nǽtr): night

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að ‘so that’

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4. at (conj.): that

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hann ‘he’

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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...

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fór ‘went’

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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel

[5] fór: so 1032ˣ, ‘f[...]’ 721

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Hrundar ‘a Hrund’

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Hrund (noun f.): Runde, Hrund, valkyrie

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Hrundar gulls,
‘a Hrund of gold, ’
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a Hrund of gold, → WOMAN
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á ‘to’

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3. á (prep.): on, at

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gulls ‘of gold’

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gull (noun n.): gold

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Hrundar gulls,
‘a Hrund of gold, ’
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a Hrund of gold, → WOMAN
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fund ‘meet’

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fundr (noun m.): discovery, meeting

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villr ‘crazed’

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villr (adj.): astray, erring, crazed

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yfir ‘across’

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yfir (prep.): over

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vassfall ‘a river’

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vatnsfall (noun n.): [a river]

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váða ‘danger’

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váði (noun m.; °-a): danger

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[8] váða (m. dat. sg.) ‘danger’: The construction is impersonal, lit. ‘it threatened his condition with danger’ (see Sperber; NN §2873). Skald emends to váði (m. nom. sg.) ‘danger’ and treats the noun as the subject of giekk lit. ‘went’. Wrightson takes an implicit hann ‘he’ as the subject and váða as an unattested adv. ‘dangerously’ (‘he trod dangerously with his situation’). This interpretation is ungrammatical, because the possessive hans ‘his’ is not refl. (we would expect sitt lit. ‘his own’).

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giekk ‘threatened’

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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go

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um ‘’

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1. um (prep.): about, around

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hans ‘his’

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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...

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ráð ‘condition’

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ráð (noun n.; °-s; -): advice, plan, control, power

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Sefi gjörðiz saurlífr;
sárum … hugarfár,
lýtanna logi heitr
lerkað fekk þann klerk,
hverja nótt að hann fór
Hrundar á gulls fund
villr yfir vassfall;
váða giekk um hans ráð.

His mind became lecherous; the mind-danger … with bitterness(es) [lit. hurts] the hot flame of sins tormented that cleric, so that he went every night to meet a Hrund <valkyrie> of gold [WOMAN], crazed, across a river; danger threatened his condition.

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