SkrautO Frag 1III
Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Skraut-Oddr, Fragments 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 358.
Ef væri Bil báru
brunnins logs, sús unnum
— opt gerik orðaskipti
einrœnliga — á bœnum.
Ef {Bil {brunnins logs báru}}, sús unnum, væri á bœnum; opt gerik orðaskipti einrœnliga.
If {the Bil <goddess> {of the burnt fire of the wave}} [GOLD > WOMAN], the one whom we [I] love, were at the farm; I often make conversation in a singular manner.
Mss: A(4r), B(2v), W(101) (TGT)
Readings: [3] orðaskipti: óðar skipti B
Editions: Skj AI, 416, Skj BI, 386, Skald I, 191; SnE 1818, 311, SnE 1848, 183, SnE 1848-87, II, 104-5, 407, 509, III, 139, TGT 1884, 15, 67, 175-6, TGT 1927, 46, 93.
Context: Cited as an example of barbarismus where an accent is added to a syllable (viðrlagning hljóðsgreinar), as shown by the presence of an accent on bœnum (TGT 1927, 46): hér er bǽnum sett fyrir bæ̂num ‘here bǽnum is used for bæ̂num’ (mss A and W have these accents, although the first is unclear in A; see TGT 1927, 46 n. 5).
Notes: [1, 4] væri á bœnum ‘were at the farm’: Bœnum (< bœr ‘farm’) could also come from the word bœn ‘prayer, request’, possibly giving a meaning such as, ‘were occupied with praying’. Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 93) points out that there would have been consequently a slight difference in pronunciation between bœ-(i)num (< bœr) and bœn-um (< bœn). This may be the basis of the distinction Óláfr refers to in the prose. — [3] orðaskipti ‘conversation’: References to talk or conversation in erotic contexts frequently have sexual overtones (Jochens 1995, 68-9).
References
- Bibliography
- TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- SnE 1848 = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1848. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, eða Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál og Háttatal. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja landsins.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Jochens, Jenny. 1995. Women in Old Norse Society. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
- TGT 1927 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1927b. Óláfr Þórðarson: Málhljóða- og málskrúðsrit. Grammatisk-retorisk afhandling. Det kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske meddelelser 13, 2. Copenhagen: Høst.
- SnE 1818 = Rask, Rasmus Kristian, ed. 1818a. Snorra Edda ásamt Skáldu og þarmeð fylgjandi ritgjörðum. Stockholm: Elmen.
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