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Anon Pl 24VII

Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 24’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 196-7.

Anonymous PoemsPlácitusdrápa
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Lifði ‘lived’

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lifa (verb): live

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halr ‘The man’

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halr (noun m.; °-s): man

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s ‘who’

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2. er (conj.): who, which, when

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hafði ‘had’

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hafa (verb): have

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hrann ‘of the wave’

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hrǫnn (noun f.; °; dat. -um): wave < hranneldr (noun m.)

[2] hranne*lds: ‘hraɴenllds’ 673b

kennings

blíðum brigði hranne*lds,
‘the gentle breaker of the wave-fire, ’
   = GENEROUS MAN

the wave-fire, → GOLD
the gentle breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
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hrann ‘of the wave’

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hrǫnn (noun f.; °; dat. -um): wave < hranneldr (noun m.)

[2] hranne*lds: ‘hraɴenllds’ 673b

kennings

blíðum brigði hranne*lds,
‘the gentle breaker of the wave-fire, ’
   = GENEROUS MAN

the wave-fire, → GOLD
the gentle breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
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e*lds ‘fire’

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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹‰(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire < hranneldr (noun m.)

[2] hranne*lds: ‘hraɴenllds’ 673b

kennings

blíðum brigði hranne*lds,
‘the gentle breaker of the wave-fire, ’
   = GENEROUS MAN

the wave-fire, → GOLD
the gentle breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
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e*lds ‘fire’

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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹‰(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire < hranneldr (noun m.)

[2] hranne*lds: ‘hraɴenllds’ 673b

kennings

blíðum brigði hranne*lds,
‘the gentle breaker of the wave-fire, ’
   = GENEROUS MAN

the wave-fire, → GOLD
the gentle breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
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tekit ‘taken’

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2. taka (verb): take

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svanna ‘the woman’

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svanni (noun m.): lady, woman

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blótum ‘in heathen practices’

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blót (noun n.; °-s; -): sacrifice

[3] blótum: ‘[...]lotum’ ascender visible on first letter 673b, ‘blotum’ 673bÞH, 673bFJ

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gnœgðr ‘steeped’

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2. gnœgja (verb): be sufficient

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frá ‘from’

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frá (prep.): from

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brigði ‘breaker’

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brigðir (noun m.): spreader, breaker

kennings

blíðum brigði hranne*lds,
‘the gentle breaker of the wave-fire, ’
   = GENEROUS MAN

the wave-fire, → GOLD
the gentle breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
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blíðum ‘the gentle’

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blíðr (adj.; °n. sg. nom. & acc. blítt/blíðt; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): gentle, happy

kennings

blíðum brigði hranne*lds,
‘the gentle breaker of the wave-fire, ’
   = GENEROUS MAN

the wave-fire, → GOLD
the gentle breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
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síðan ‘longer’

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síðan (adv.): later, then

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Hús ‘a house’

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hús (noun n.; °-s; -): house

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hættin ‘The virtuous’

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1. hættinn (adj.): virtuous

kennings

Hættin Jǫrð hǫrstrengs
‘The virtuous Jǫrð of the linen-ribbon ’
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The virtuous Jǫrð of the linen-ribbon → WOMAN
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hǫr ‘of the linen’

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hǫrr (noun m.): linen < hǫrstrengr (noun m.)

kennings

Hættin Jǫrð hǫrstrengs
‘The virtuous Jǫrð of the linen-ribbon ’
   = WOMAN

The virtuous Jǫrð of the linen-ribbon → WOMAN
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strengs ‘ribbon’

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strengr (noun m.; °-jar; -ir): string, rope, bow-string < hǫrstrengr (noun m.)

kennings

Hættin Jǫrð hǫrstrengs
‘The virtuous Jǫrð of the linen-ribbon ’
   = WOMAN

The virtuous Jǫrð of the linen-ribbon → WOMAN
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ok ‘’

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

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* ‘’

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[6] *: ok 673b

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at ‘after’

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3. at (prep.): at, to

[6] at: ‘[...]’ 673b, at 673bÞH, ‘[...]t’ 673bFJ

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lengi ‘for a long time’

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lengi (adv.): for a long time

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Jǫrð ‘Jǫrð’

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2. Jǫrð (noun f.): Jǫrð

kennings

Hættin Jǫrð hǫrstrengs
‘The virtuous Jǫrð of the linen-ribbon ’
   = WOMAN

The virtuous Jǫrð of the linen-ribbon → WOMAN
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í ‘in’

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í (prep.): in, into

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tvist ‘although muted by [impending] danger’

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2. tvistr (adj.): repentant, muted < ógntvistr (adj.)

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ok ‘and’

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

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helt ‘kept’

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halda (verb): hold, keep

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kristni ‘Christian faith’

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kristni (noun f.; °-/-s(Ágr 26¹²)): Christianity

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There are several distinctive verbal correspondences between st. 24 and the C version of the saga (Louis-Jensen 1998, cxxiii-iv), including blótum gnœgðr ‘steeped in heathen practices’ (l. 3) and mikill blótmadur ‘great [pagan] sacrificer’ (C); halr lifðifá vetr síðan ‘the man lived few winters longer’ (ll. 1, 4) and og lifdi litla stund ‘and lived for a short time’ (C); [hun] átti sér lengi at þat hús í aldingarði ok helt … kristni (ll. 5, 6, 7, 8) ‘[she] owned for a long time after that a house in an orchard and kept ... [her] Christian faith’ and átti hun sjer þ]á hús í einum alldinngardi lifdi þar vel hiellt sinn c[hristinndom stadfastlega ‘then she owned a house in an orchard [and] lived there [and] kept her Christian faith steadfastly’ (C).

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