Anon Pét 8VII
David McDougall (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Pétrsdrápa 8’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 802-3.
Þjóð ‘people’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
öll ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
hyggin ‘thoughtful’
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hygginn (adj.; °comp. -ari, superl. -astr): intelligent
hlýði ‘listen’
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hljóða (verb): listen, sound
hátt ‘out loud’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
vill ‘wish’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
guðs ‘of God’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
dýrð ‘the glory’
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dýrð (noun f.; °-ar/-a(NoDipl(1279) 44²); -ir): glory
vátta ‘to bear witness’
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vátta (verb): affirm, attest
strokin ‘furbished’
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strjúka (verb): furbish, wipe
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
lífs ‘of life’
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líf (noun n.; °-s; -): life
notes
[3] með laukum lífs ‘with the flowers of life’: Finnur Jónsson (LP: laukr) translates lífs laukr ‘livets løg, livet bevarende løg’ (‘life’s herb [lit. onion], life-preserving herb’), and compares the lifesaving blað ‘leaf’ of Vǫls ch. 8 (cf. similarly Fritzner: lífsgras). Kahle 1898, 109 cites Jón Þorkelsson’s suggestion that með laukum here = með blóma = með frægð ‘with glory’ (cf. blóm sóma 9/4; blóm píslanna 34/8). Með laukum lífs may then mean roughly ‘with the glory of eternal life, salvation’. Cf. Blöndal: laukur 2a blomst ‘flower’; 2b som Del af en kenning om n-t rankt og blomstrende ... Pryd ‘as part of a kenning for something straight and flourishing ... ornament’.
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
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[3] með laukum lífs ‘with the flowers of life’: Finnur Jónsson (LP: laukr) translates lífs laukr ‘livets løg, livet bevarende løg’ (‘life’s herb [lit. onion], life-preserving herb’), and compares the lifesaving blað ‘leaf’ of Vǫls ch. 8 (cf. similarly Fritzner: lífsgras). Kahle 1898, 109 cites Jón Þorkelsson’s suggestion that með laukum here = með blóma = með frægð ‘with glory’ (cf. blóm sóma 9/4; blóm píslanna 34/8). Með laukum lífs may then mean roughly ‘with the glory of eternal life, salvation’. Cf. Blöndal: laukur 2a blomst ‘flower’; 2b som Del af en kenning om n-t rankt og blomstrende ... Pryd ‘as part of a kenning for something straight and flourishing ... ornament’.
laukum ‘the flowers’
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laukr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): leek, mast
notes
[3] með laukum lífs ‘with the flowers of life’: Finnur Jónsson (LP: laukr) translates lífs laukr ‘livets løg, livet bevarende løg’ (‘life’s herb [lit. onion], life-preserving herb’), and compares the lifesaving blað ‘leaf’ of Vǫls ch. 8 (cf. similarly Fritzner: lífsgras). Kahle 1898, 109 cites Jón Þorkelsson’s suggestion that með laukum here = með blóma = með frægð ‘with glory’ (cf. blóm sóma 9/4; blóm píslanna 34/8). Með laukum lífs may then mean roughly ‘with the glory of eternal life, salvation’. Cf. Blöndal: laukur 2a blomst ‘flower’; 2b som Del af en kenning om n-t rankt og blomstrende ... Pryd ‘as part of a kenning for something straight and flourishing ... ornament’.
lof ‘of praise’
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lof (noun n.; °-s; -): praise, leave, permission < lofsmíð (noun f.)
smíð ‘the work’
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smíð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-ar): well-made, -crafted < lofsmíð (noun f.)
Pétri ‘for Peter’
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Pétr (noun m.): Peter
víða ‘at many points’
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1. víða (adv.): widely
Felli ‘cast off’
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falla (verb): fall
flaum ‘levity’
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flaumr (noun m.; °dat. -): eddy
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
kalli ‘call’
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kalla (verb): call
fljóð ‘women’
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fljóð (noun n.): woman
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
börn ‘children’
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barn (noun n.; °-s; bǫrn/barn(JKr 345³), dat. bǫrnum/barnum): child
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
góðan ‘the good’
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góðr (adj.): good
Krists ‘of Christ’
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Kristr (noun m.; °-s/-, dat. -i; -ar): Christ
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
prestar ‘priests’
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prestr (noun m.; °-s/-, dat. -i/-; -ar): priest
notes
[8] palls siðlætis ‘the step of virtue’: Ms. ‘pall sidlætis’ with loss of <s> in palls by haplography. Cf. heims stríðandi 30/6. Steingrímur Þorsteinsson, in his transcription in AM 920 4°ˣ, reads ms. ‘pall’ as Páll, which, as Kahle observes (1898, 109), makes no sense. Finnur Jónsson also appears to have taken the ms. form as the personal name, which he emends to Pétr (Skj B) and treats in apposition with góðan postula Krists (ll. 6-7). He takes siðlætis as gen. object of gæti and translates: og præsterne iagtage sædelighed ‘and let the priests observe morality’. Kock (NN §1716) compares the locution siðlætis pallr here with siðapallr ‘step of faith’ at st. 31/4, although here the sense of pallr is effectively neutral (i.e. siðlætis pallr = siðlæti). Schottmann 1973, 132 compares Liljukvistir 23/6 (ÍM I.2, 162) sæmdar pallar. On the widespread use of this type of genitival periphrasis (nafnorðsaukning) in rímur see Björn K. Þórólfsson 1934, 204-7; Davíð Erlingsson 1974.
siðlætis ‘of virtue’
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siðlæti (noun n.): [virtue]
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[8] palls siðlætis ‘the step of virtue’: Ms. ‘pall sidlætis’ with loss of <s> in palls by haplography. Cf. heims stríðandi 30/6. Steingrímur Þorsteinsson, in his transcription in AM 920 4°ˣ, reads ms. ‘pall’ as Páll, which, as Kahle observes (1898, 109), makes no sense. Finnur Jónsson also appears to have taken the ms. form as the personal name, which he emends to Pétr (Skj B) and treats in apposition with góðan postula Krists (ll. 6-7). He takes siðlætis as gen. object of gæti and translates: og præsterne iagtage sædelighed ‘and let the priests observe morality’. Kock (NN §1716) compares the locution siðlætis pallr here with siðapallr ‘step of faith’ at st. 31/4, although here the sense of pallr is effectively neutral (i.e. siðlætis pallr = siðlæti). Schottmann 1973, 132 compares Liljukvistir 23/6 (ÍM I.2, 162) sæmdar pallar. On the widespread use of this type of genitival periphrasis (nafnorðsaukning) in rímur see Björn K. Þórólfsson 1934, 204-7; Davíð Erlingsson 1974.
gæti ‘preserve’
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2. gæta (verb): look after, care for
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