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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Nkt 71II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 71’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 804.

Anonymous PoemsNóregs konungatal
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Þótti ‘seemed’

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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think

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ǫrr ‘liberal’

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ǫrr (adj.): generous, brave

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ok ‘and’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

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ósvikall ‘honest’

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ósvikall (adj.): [honest]

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faðir ‘father’

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faðir (noun m.): father

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flestum ‘to most’

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fleiri (adj. comp.; °superl. flestr): more, most

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[4] flestum mǫnnum ‘to most men’: I.e. ‘to all men’ (litotes, see Note to st. 19/1).

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mǫnnum ‘men’

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maðr (noun m.): man, person

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[4] flestum mǫnnum ‘to most men’: I.e. ‘to all men’ (litotes, see Note to st. 19/1).

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Vissi ‘had’

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1. vita (verb): know

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[5, 7] vissi engan óvin sinn ‘had no enemy’: Lit. ‘knew no enemy of his’.

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Loptr ‘Loptr’

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Loftr (noun m.): [Loptr, loft]

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und ‘beneath’

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3. und (prep.): under, underneath

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logi ‘the flame’

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log (noun n.; °; -): flame

[6] logi: ‘lo᷎fi’ Flat

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logi skýja.
‘the flame of the clouds.’
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the flame of the clouds. → SUN

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[6] logi (n. dat. sg.) ‘flame’: This emendation is conjectural. Flat has the nonsensical ‘lo᷎fi’, and Skj B emends to leið ‘path’ and reads und leið skýja ‘beneath the path of the clouds’, i.e. ‘beneath heaven’ (so also Skald). However, it is difficult to see how leið could have been corrupted to ‘lo᷎fi’. The noun in question must either be short-stemmed and disyllabic (resolved) or monosyllabic.

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skýja ‘of the clouds’

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ský (noun n.; °-s; -): cloud

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logi skýja.
‘the flame of the clouds.’
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the flame of the clouds. → SUN
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óvin ‘enemy’

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óvinr (noun m.): enemy

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[5, 7] vissi engan óvin sinn ‘had no enemy’: Lit. ‘knew no enemy of his’.

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sinn ‘’

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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)

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[5, 7] vissi engan óvin sinn ‘had no enemy’: Lit. ‘knew no enemy of his’.

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engan ‘no’

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2. engi (pron.): no, none

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[5, 7] vissi engan óvin sinn ‘had no enemy’: Lit. ‘knew no enemy of his’.

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