Anon Sól 10VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 10’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 302.
Mundar ‘’
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1. mund (noun f.): hand
Munaðar ‘of desire’
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munaðr (noun m.; °; gen. -aða): desire
[1] Munaðar: Mundar 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ
ríki ‘The power’
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ríki (noun n.; °-s; -): kingdom, power
hefr ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
margan ‘many a man’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
tregat ‘to grief’
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1. trega (verb): distress
[2] tregat: tregat corrected from ‘svikit’ 1441ˣ
notes
[2] tregat ‘brought to grief’: This is the reading of 60 mss. 166bˣ reads ‘togd’ here; probably superscript <r> has been accidentally omitted.
opt ‘often’
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opt (adv.): often
kval ‘torment’
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kvǫl (noun f.; °-ar; -ar/-ir): torment, torture < kvalræði (noun n.)
ræði ‘’
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ræði (noun n.; °; -): [deeds, exploit] < kvalræði (noun n.)
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
konum ‘women’
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kona (noun f.; °-u; -ur/-r(KlmA1980 116¹¹), gen. pl. kvenna/kvinna): woman
meingar ‘harmful’
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meinigr (adj.): [harmful]
þær ‘they’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
urðu ‘become’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
þótt ‘though’
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þó (adv.): though
mátki ‘mighty’
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máttigr (adj.; °compar. -ari/-ri, superl. -astr): mighty
guð ‘God’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
skapti ‘’
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2. skapa (verb): form
skapaði ‘created’
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2. skapa (verb): form
[6] skapaði: ‘sk padi’ 167b 6ˣ, skapti 214ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ
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The unreliability and harmfulness of women is a staple of gnomic poetry; cf. Hávm 84, Hsv 12, 105. — [6]: 167bˣ has a damaged leaf; ‘sk padi’ is supplied from the catchword of the preceding page.
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