Anon Pét 9VII
David McDougall (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Pétrsdrápa 9’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 803-4.
Kápharnáum ‘Capernaum’
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[1] Kápharnáum ‘Capernaum’: Cf. Pétr 1/9-10: fædduz bræðr .ii. Simon ok Andreas i þeiri borg er Capharnaum heitir ‘the two brothers Simon and Andrew were born in that city which is called Capernaum’; see Matt. IV.13-19.
korni ‘the seed’
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korni (noun m.): [seed]
Kristr ‘Christ’
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Kristr (noun m.; °-s/-, dat. -i; -ar): Christ
sáði ‘sowed’
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2. sá (verb): sow
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
lista ‘of virtues’
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list (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): skill, art, virtue
borgin ‘city’
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borg (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -; -ir): city, stronghold
bar ‘bore’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
mörgum ‘for many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
blóm ‘fruits’
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blóm (noun n.; °-s; -): flower
ítarlig ‘glorious’
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ítarligr (adj.): magnificent
sóma ‘of honour’
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sómi (noun m.; °-a): honour
Ágætis ‘Outstanding’
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ágæti (noun n.; °-s; -): fame, excellence < ágætismaðr (noun m.): excellent man
[5] Ágætis‑: ‘agiætis’ corrected from ‘agiætum’ 621
menn ‘persons’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person < ágætismaðr (noun m.): excellent man
ýtum ‘to men’
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ýtr (noun m.): man; launcher
upp ‘up’
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upp (adv.): up
runnir ‘grown’
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2. renna (verb): run (strong)
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
kunnir ‘were well known’
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kunna (verb): know, can, be able
annan ‘of another’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
stað ‘city’
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1. staðr (noun m.; °-ar/-s; -ir): place
má ‘can’
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mega (verb): may, might
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
inna ‘speak’
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inna (verb): to pay, discharge, relate, tell; to announce, confirm
oft ‘often’
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opt (adv.): often
vóru ‘had’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
stóran ‘great’
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stórr (adj.): large, great
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[1-4]: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends ms. ‘morgum’ (l. 3) to mǫrgu, agreeing with korni (l. 1), and translates Kristus såde dér mangt et udmærket frøkorn (= korni ... lista, ll. 1-2) ‘Christ sowed there many an excellent seed’. Kock (NN §1717) retains the ms. reading, but takes mǫrgum with sóma (l. 4) and renders ll. 3-4: Denna stad med mycken heder bar den härligaste frukt ‘This city with great honour bore the most glorious fruit’. He takes lista korn (ll. 1-2) to mean kunskapssäden ‘the seed of knowledge’. — [7-8]: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) translates en anden stor stad kan jeg (også) nævne dig ‘I can (also) tell you of another great city’. Kock (NN §1718, cf. §2774) objects to the syntactical discontinuity introduced by retaining ms. ‘þer’, ‘to you’ (l. 8), and points out that nowhere else in Pét is a reader/listener addressed in the 2nd pers. sg. His emendation of þér to þar is adopted here.
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