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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Alpost 5VII/1 — þessa ‘of this’

Oss giefi Jácób þessa
Jóns bróðir frið góðan
siðar og sanna prýði,
sætast hæfilæti.
Halda manni mildum
mikið stím pílagrímar,
þar er fagnaðar færi
fellr í Kompostella.
Gleði gjörvalla inni
Guð með Jácóbs minni.

Jácób, bróðir þessa Jóns, giefi oss góðan frið og sanna prýði siðar, sætast hæfilæti. Pílagrímar halda mikið stím mildum manni, þar er færi fagnaðar fellr í Kompostella. Guð gleði gjörvalla inni með minni Jácóbs.

May James, brother of this John, grant us good peace, and the true adornment of faith, the sweetest modesty. Pilgrims make a great tumult about the gentle man, where occasion for rejoicing occurs in Compostela. May God make joyful all without exception [here] within, with a memorial toast for James.

readings

[1] þessa: ‘þesse’ 721

notes

[1] þessa (m. gen. sg.) ‘of this’: Ms. ‘þesse’ (m. nom. sg.) ‘this’. Finnur Jónsson and Kock emend to þessa, m. gen. sg., modifying Jóns, interpreting ll. 1-2 as ‘James, brother of this John’ (i.e. the Apostle referred to in the preceding st.). The ms. reading might alternatively be retained and the passage read: ‘this James, John’s brother’, i.e. James the Great, as opposed to James the Less, the subject of st. 8 below. The detail that James the Great was John’s older brother derives ultimately from scripture (cf. Matt. IV.21; Mark I.19; Acts XII.2).

grammar

Pronouns and determiners: sjá/þessi (this)



masc.fem.neut.
sing. N
A
G
D
sjá/þessi
þenna/þennan
þessa
þessum
sjá/þessi
þessa
þessar
þessi/þessari

þetta/þettað
þetta/þettað
þessa
þessu

pl. N
A
G
D
þessir
þessa
þessa
þessum
þessar
þessar
þessa
þessum
þessi
þessi
þessa
þessum
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