Anon Pét 36VII
David McDougall (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Pétrsdrápa 36’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 827-8.
Nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
frumtígna ‘highest dignities’
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frumtígn (noun f.): highest dignity
fagnað ‘the joy’
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fǫgnuðr (noun m.; °fagnaðar; fagnaðir): joy
fest ‘established’
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2. festa (verb): fasten, betrothe, promise
hefi ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
einum ‘in a single’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
lestri ‘reading’
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2. lestr (noun f.): [reading]
þeira ‘of those’
notes
[3] þeira tólf ‘of those twelve’: Cf. sts 27-8.
tólf ‘twelve’
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tolf (num. cardinal): twelve
notes
[3] þeira tólf ‘of those twelve’: Cf. sts 27-8.
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
tíri ‘glory’
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tírr (noun m.; °-s): glory, honour
að ‘which’
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4. at (conj.): that
notes
[4] að tjáðag ‘which I recounted’: Ms. að is omitted in Skj B and Skald. At NN §1739 Kock proposes taking the form as a rel. particle, as here (cf. sts 10/8, 11/6, 35/8). At NN §2878 he argues instead that að is a scribal addition, and translates: Nu jag i en enda läsning fastställt stora företrädens fröjd: tolv sådana hos Petrus har jag hittils talt med pris ‘Now in a single reading I have established the joy of great merits: twelve such in Peter I have hitherto recounted with praise’.
tjáðag ‘I recounted’
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tjá (verb): to put in order, prepare
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[4] að tjáðag ‘which I recounted’: Ms. að is omitted in Skj B and Skald. At NN §1739 Kock proposes taking the form as a rel. particle, as here (cf. sts 10/8, 11/6, 35/8). At NN §2878 he argues instead that að is a scribal addition, and translates: Nu jag i en enda läsning fastställt stora företrädens fröjd: tolv sådana hos Petrus har jag hittils talt med pris ‘Now in a single reading I have established the joy of great merits: twelve such in Peter I have hitherto recounted with praise’.
Pétri ‘of Peter’
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Pétr (noun m.): Peter
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[4] Pétri ‘of Peter’: probably Lat. gen. sg. (of Petrus), rather than dat. sg. (of Pétr). Cf. sts 4/8, 8/4, and Note to 22/8.
áðan ‘earlier’
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áðan (adv.): before
Opinn ‘open’
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opinn (adj.): open, gaping
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
syndum ‘of sins’
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synð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): sin
sópaðr ‘swept’
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sópa (verb): [swept]
salr ‘hall’
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1. salr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; dat. sǫlum): hall
kennings
kunnigr salr vizkunnar‘the knowing hall of the intellect ’
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the knowing hall of the intellect → BREAST
vizkunnar ‘of the intellect’
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vizka (noun f.; °-u): wisdom
kennings
kunnigr salr vizkunnar‘the knowing hall of the intellect ’
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the knowing hall of the intellect → BREAST
kunnigr ‘the knowing’
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kunnigr (adj.; °acc. kunngan/kunnigan; compar. -ari; superl. -astr): known
kennings
kunnigr salr vizkunnar‘the knowing hall of the intellect ’
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the knowing hall of the intellect → BREAST
standi ‘stand’
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standa (verb): stand
að ‘’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
notes
[7] að greindum stuðli ‘the “prop” having been established’: The construction að + p.p. is similar to Lat. ablative absolute (cf. CVC: at with dat. B.IV.2); the sense is that, as the poem and its metre have been established, the poet is now ready to move into the stefjabálkr. Kock proposes (NN §3375) that stuðill refers here to the first alliterating ‘support’ of the hǫfuðstafr in the stef (st. 37). At Skj B Finnur Jónsson renders the phrase for en god digtning ‘for a good poem’, but in LP: stuðill he modifies this to ved hjælp af den fornuftige (?) støtte (også allusion til bistave)? ‘with the help of the sensible (?) support (also an allusion to the alliterating “props”)?’.
stuðli ‘prop’
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stuðill (noun m.; °; stuðlar): pillar, prop
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[7] að greindum stuðli ‘the “prop” having been established’: The construction að + p.p. is similar to Lat. ablative absolute (cf. CVC: at with dat. B.IV.2); the sense is that, as the poem and its metre have been established, the poet is now ready to move into the stefjabálkr. Kock proposes (NN §3375) that stuðill refers here to the first alliterating ‘support’ of the hǫfuðstafr in the stef (st. 37). At Skj B Finnur Jónsson renders the phrase for en god digtning ‘for a good poem’, but in LP: stuðill he modifies this to ved hjælp af den fornuftige (?) støtte (også allusion til bistave)? ‘with the help of the sensible (?) support (also an allusion to the alliterating “props”)?’.
greindum ‘having been established’
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greina (verb): explain, divide
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[7] að greindum stuðli ‘the “prop” having been established’: The construction að + p.p. is similar to Lat. ablative absolute (cf. CVC: at with dat. B.IV.2); the sense is that, as the poem and its metre have been established, the poet is now ready to move into the stefjabálkr. Kock proposes (NN §3375) that stuðill refers here to the first alliterating ‘support’ of the hǫfuðstafr in the stef (st. 37). At Skj B Finnur Jónsson renders the phrase for en god digtning ‘for a good poem’, but in LP: stuðill he modifies this to ved hjælp af den fornuftige (?) støtte (også allusion til bistave)? ‘with the help of the sensible (?) support (also an allusion to the alliterating “props”)?’.
stefja ‘a refrain’
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stef (noun n.; °; -): refrain < stefjabǫlkr (noun m.)
bálk ‘section’
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bǫlkr (noun m.; °dat. belki; acc. bǫlku/bǫlka): section, room, wall < stefjabǫlkr (noun m.)
vil ‘wish’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hefja ‘to begin’
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hefja (verb): lift, start
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