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Ana Enriquez: /* Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286) */

2009-12-15T23:46:19Z

‎Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286)

Ana Enriquez: /* Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286) */

2009-12-15T21:43:28Z

‎Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286)

Jan Ziolkowski at 04:12, 15 December 2009

2009-12-15T04:12:52Z

Jan Ziolkowski at 04:10, 15 December 2009

2009-12-15T04:10:44Z

Bjorn Kuhnicke: /* Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286) */

2009-12-14T17:51:22Z

‎Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286)

Shane Bobrycki: /* Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286) */

2009-12-12T03:46:19Z

‎Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286)

Shane Bobrycki: /* Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286) */

2009-12-12T02:54:34Z

‎Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286)

Shane Bobrycki: /* Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286) */

2009-12-12T02:53:51Z

‎Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286)

Shane Bobrycki: /* Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286) */

2009-12-12T02:53:03Z

‎Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286)

Shane Bobrycki: /* Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286) */

2009-12-12T02:45:24Z

‎Walther reveals to Hildegund his plans for escaping with Attila’s treasure (256–286)

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-|{{Comment|'''violentia potus''' violentia as opposed to vis underscores the moral irresponsibility of the king’s court in its drunkenness. Cf. the “excessive drink” which prompts Xerxes to act irresponsibly in Esther 1.10. SB.}}
+|{{Comment|'''violentia potus''' violentia as opposed to vis underscores the moral irresponsibility of the king’s court in its drunkenness. Cf. the “excessive drink” which prompts Xerxes to act irresponsibly in Esther 1.10. SB.
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-|{{Comment|'''263-65'''		Cf. 334-339, where Walter’s actual arms and armor are described in greater detail: “Imposuit capiti rubras cum casside cristas / Ingentesque ocreis suras complectitur aureis / Et laevum femur ancipiti praecinxerat ense / Atque alio dextrum pro ritu Pannoniarum: / Is tamen ex una tantum dat vulnera parte. Tunc hastam dextra rapiens clipeumque sinistra” (“Then places on his head a crimson-crested helmet / And wraps his massive calves in greaves of gold; he girds / A two-edged sword on his left thigh; and following / The manner of the Huns, another on his right: / This one, however, will wound only from one edge. / His right hand grasps a spear; his left hand grasps a shield.” Kratz). Here, by contrast, Walter asks only for armor from Hildegund, i.e. defensive gear, not offensive weapons. This may be of significance, as his departure is presented by Ospirin, at 376-377, as the ruin of what upheld and defended the Huns: “En hodie imperii vestri cecidisse column / Noscitur en robur procul ivit et inclitsa virtus” (“Behold, today, the column of your empire is known from afair to have fallen; behold its bulwark and its famous courage have gone.” Not Kratz). It is especially significant, and symbolic, that Walter is asking for the king’s own armor. The gear requested is the king’s galea, “helmet,” and tunica, “byrnie,” which is described as a trilix lorica, “three-fold cuirass” that “bears the mark of smiths.” See Althof for the significance of smith-work in so-called Germanic culture. Ziolkowski 2008 discusses the physical nature of some of these arms in an early medieval context. SB}}
+|{{Comment|'''263-65'''		Cf. 334-339, where Walter’s actual arms and armor are described in greater detail: “Imposuit capiti rubras cum casside cristas / Ingentesque ocreis suras complectitur aureis / Et laevum femur ancipiti praecinxerat ense / Atque alio dextrum pro ritu Pannoniarum: / Is tamen ex una tantum dat vulnera parte. Tunc hastam dextra rapiens clipeumque sinistra” (“Then places on his head a crimson-crested helmet / And wraps his massive calves in greaves of gold; he girds / A two-edged sword on his left thigh; and following / The manner of the Huns, another on his right: / This one, however, will wound only from one edge. / His right hand grasps a spear; his left hand grasps a shield.” Kratz). Here, by contrast, Walter asks only for armor from Hildegund, i.e. defensive gear, not offensive weapons. This may be of significance, as his departure is presented by Ospirin, at 376-377, as the ruin of what upheld and defended the Huns: “En hodie imperii vestri cecidisse column / Noscitur en robur procul ivit et inclitsa virtus” (“Behold, today, the column of your empire is known from afair to have fallen; behold its bulwark and its famous courage have gone.” Not Kratz). It is especially significant, and symbolic, that Walter is asking for the king’s own armor. The gear requested is the king’s galea, “helmet,” and tunica, “byrnie,” which is described as a trilix lorica, “three-fold cuirass” that “bears the mark of smiths.” See Althof for the significance of smith-work in so-called Germanic culture. Ziolkowski 2008 discusses the physical nature of some of these arms in an early medieval context. SB
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-|{{Comment|'''omni ingenio''' cf. Isidore, Synonyma 1.24: "Omni ope, omni vi, '''omni ingenio''', omni virtute, omni arte, omni ratione, omni consilio, omni instantia sume luctamen contra corporales molestias" ("With all your effort, all your strength, '''all your wit''', all your art, all your reason, all your counsel, all your concentration take up the struggle against bodily troubles"). SB. FYI, this text was indeed very influential in early medieval Germanic cultures or at least in Anglo-Saxon England, partly because of its utility in helping non-Romance-speakers to acquire Latin vocabulary. See Claudia Di Sciacca, Finding the right words: Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.)}}
+|{{Comment|'''omni ingenio''' cf. Isidore, Synonyma 1.24: "Omni ope, omni vi, '''omni ingenio''', omni virtute, omni arte, omni ratione, omni consilio, omni instantia sume luctamen contra corporales molestias" ("With all your effort, all your strength, '''all your wit''', all your art, all your reason, all your counsel, all your concentration take up the struggle against bodily troubles"). SB. FYI, this text was indeed very influential in early medieval Germanic cultures or at least in Anglo-Saxon England, partly because of its utility in helping non-Romance-speakers to acquire Latin vocabulary. See Claudia Di Sciacca, Finding the right words: Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.) JZ}}
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 |[[Donec]] [[nullus1|nullus]] [[erit]], [[qui3|qui]] [[sentiat]] [[hoc4|hoc]], [[quod1|quod]] [[agendum]] [[est]].

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-|{{Comment|'''assero''' perhaps simply “I mean” as the Kratz 1984 translation suggests, i.e. clarifying which tunica exactly ought to be taken (“I mean the three-fold cuirass…”), but assero may have a more symbolic meaning here. It was originally a technical term for the liberation of a slave, but it came to mean an act of appropriation or a claim of ownership (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae). In line with the fact that Walter is taking the king’s own armor, this technical or juridical sense of the verb may be significant, i.e. he is asserting his right to the king’s personal defense, since he himself is that defense. This undergirds Ospirin’s fears that Walter’s departure means the loss of the Hunnish bulwark (376-77). SB}}
+|{{Comment|'''assero''' perhaps simply “I mean” as the Kratz 1984 translation suggests, i.e. clarifying which tunica exactly ought to be taken (“I mean the three-fold cuirass…”), but assero may have a more symbolic meaning here. It was originally a technical term for the liberation of a slave, but it came to mean an act of appropriation or a claim of ownership (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae). In line with the fact that Walter is taking the king’s own armor, this technical or juridical sense of the verb may be significant, i.e. he is "asserting" his right to the king’s personal defense, since he himself is that defense. This assertion undergirds Ospirin’s fears that Walter’s departure means the loss of the Hunnish bulwark (376-77). SB}}
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-|{{Comment|'''armillarum''' “arm bands”; rings of precious metal were a common currency for the remuneration of warriors in early medieval kingship. See J. R. Maddicott “Power and Prosperity in the Age of Bede and Beowulf,” Proceedings of the British Academy 117 (2002), 49-71 for some of the intricacies of supporting Germanic kingship on a material level. Compare also Alfred the Great’s translation of Boethius (late ninth century): “In the case of the king, the resources and tools with which to rule are that he must have his land fully manned: he must have praying men, fighting men, and working men. You know also that without these tools no king may make his ability known…[and] he must have the means of support for his tools, the three classes of men. These, then, are their means of support: land to live on, gifts, weapons, food, ale, clothing, and whatever else is necessary…” in Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge, Asser’s Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources (London, 1983), 132. See Ziolkowski 2008 for discussion of the arm bands within this matrix of early medieval kingship. On a more literary level, the strife that these armbands will cause is foreshadowed by the heavy spondaic feel of both this line and the preceding line (SSSSDS), in the same way that Aen. 4.124 "speluncam Dido dux et Troianus eandem" foreshadows the fateful consequences of the flight of Dido and Aeneas to the cave in which they consummate their union. SB}}
+|{{Comment|'''armillarum''' “arm bands”; rings of precious metal were a common currency for the remuneration of warriors in early medieval kingship. See J. R. Maddicott “Power and Prosperity in the Age of Bede and Beowulf,” Proceedings of the British Academy 117 (2002), 49-71 for some of the intricacies of supporting Germanic kingship on a material level. Compare also Alfred the Great’s translation of Boethius (late ninth century): “In the case of the king, the resources and tools with which to rule are that he must have his land fully manned: he must have praying men, fighting men, and working men. You know also that without these tools no king may make his ability known…[and] he must have the means of support for his tools, the three classes of men. These, then, are their means of support: land to live on, gifts, weapons, food, ale, clothing, and whatever else is necessary…” in Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge, Asser’s Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources (London, 1983), 132. See Ziolkowski 2008 for discussion of the arm bands within this matrix of early medieval kingship. On a more literary level, the strife that these arm bands will cause is foreshadowed by the heavy spondaic feel of both this line and the preceding line (SSSSDS), in the same way that Aen. 4.124 "speluncam Dido dux et Troianus eandem" foreshadows the fateful consequences of the flight of Dido and Aeneas to the cave in which they consummate their union. SB}}
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 |[[donec1|Donec]] [[vix]] [[unum1|unum]] [[releves]] [[ad]] [[pectoris]] [[imum1|imum]].
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-|{{Comment|'''satrapis''' here evidently referring to some high level of the nobility. The poet occasionally uses it to describe a king as well. The term is used to describe royal officials in the Book of Esther (3.12), an important parallel for this section of the poem. SB.
+|{{Comment|'''satrapis''' here evidently referring to high nobility. The poet occasionally uses it to describe a king as well. The term is used to describe royal officials in the Book of Esther (3.12), an important parallel for this section of the poem. SB.
-'''I felt satrape has a coherent meaning in the Waltharius, such as vassal, or noble man who is below the king, who is nobel but dependent. But you might disagree. BK'''}}
+'''I felt satrape has a coherent meaning in the Waltharius, such as vassal, or noble man who is below the king, who is noble but dependent. But you might disagree. BK'''}}
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-|{{Comment|'''omni ingenio''' cf. Isidore, Synonyma 1.24: "Omni ope, omni vi, '''omni ingenio''', omni virtute, omni arte, omni ratione, omni consilio, omni instantia sume luctamen contra corporales molestias" ("With all your effort, all your strength, '''all your wit''', all your art, all your reason, all your counsel, all your concentration take up the struggle against bodily troubles"). SB.}}
+|{{Comment|'''omni ingenio''' cf. Isidore, Synonyma 1.24: "Omni ope, omni vi, '''omni ingenio''', omni virtute, omni arte, omni ratione, omni consilio, omni instantia sume luctamen contra corporales molestias" ("With all your effort, all your strength, '''all your wit''', all your art, all your reason, all your counsel, all your concentration take up the struggle against bodily troubles"). SB. FYI, this text was indeed very influential in early medieval Germanic cultures or at least in Anglo-Saxon England, partly because of its utility in helping non-Romance-speakers to acquire Latin vocabulary. See Claudia Di Sciacca, Finding the right words: Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.)}}
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 |[[Donec]] [[nullus1|nullus]] [[erit]], [[qui3|qui]] [[sentiat]] [[hoc4|hoc]], [[quod1|quod]] [[agendum]] [[est]].
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-|{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 9.422: ''tu tamen interea''. . . ‘You, meanwhile. . .’
+|{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 9.422: ''tu tamen interea''. . . ‘You, meanwhile. . .’ 1 Timothy 5.23: "vino modico utere."
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-|{{Comment|'''satrapis''' here evidently referring to some high level of the nobility. The poet occasionally uses it to describe a king as well. The term is used to describe royal officials in the Book of Esther (3.12), an important parallel for this section of the poem. SB.}}
+|{{Comment|'''satrapis''' here evidently referring to some high level of the nobility. The poet occasionally uses it to describe a king as well. The term is used to describe royal officials in the Book of Esther (3.12), an important parallel for this section of the poem. SB.
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-|{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 5.842: ''funditque has ore loquelas.'' ‘He pours these accents from his lips.’
+|{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 5.842: ''funditque has ore loquelas.'' ‘He pours these accents from his lips.’
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-|{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 7.356: ''animus toto percepit pectore flammam.'' ‘And her soul has not yet caught the flame throughout her breast.’
+|{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 7.356: ''animus toto percepit pectore flammam.'' ‘And her soul has not yet caught the flame throughout her breast.’
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-|{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 4.115-116.: ''nunc qua ratione quod instat/ confiere possit. . .'' ‘Now in what way the present purpose can be achieved. . .’ 8.49: ''nunc qua ratione quod instat/ expedias victor. . .'' ‘Now in what way you can make your way triumphant. . .’
+|{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 4.115-116.: ''nunc qua ratione quod instat/ confiere possit. . .'' ‘Now in what way the present purpose can be achieved. . .’ 8.49: ''nunc qua ratione quod instat/ expedias victor. . .'' ‘Now in what way you can make your way triumphant. . .’
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-|{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 5.64-65.:'' si nona diem mortalibus almum/ Aurora extulerit. . .''''Teucris ponam certamina classis.'' ‘Should the ninth Dawn lift her kindly light for mortals. . .I will ordain contests for the Trojans.’
+|{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 5.64-65.:'' si nona diem mortalibus almum/ Aurora extulerit. . .''''Teucris ponam certamina classis.'' ‘Should the ninth Dawn lift her kindly light for mortals. . .I will ordain contests for the Trojans.’
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-|{{Comment|'''omni ingenio''' cf. Isidore, Synonyma 1.24: "Omni ope, omni vi, '''omni ingenio''', omni virtute, omni arte, omni ratione, omni consilio, omni instantia sume luctamen contra corporales molestias" ("With all your effort, all your strength, all your wit, all your art, all your reason, all your counsel, all you concentration take up the struggle against bodily troubles"). SB.}}
+|{{Comment|'''omni ingenio''' cf. Isidore, Synonyma 1.24: "Omni ope, omni vi, '''omni ingenio''', omni virtute, omni arte, omni ratione, omni consilio, omni instantia sume luctamen contra corporales molestias" ("With all your effort, all your strength, '''all your wit''', all your art, all your reason, all your counsel, all you concentration take up the struggle against bodily troubles"). SB.}}
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-|{{Comment| '''scrinia''' these are presumably large casks. In medieval Latin scrinium often described the cases in which books or papers were held, and by extension, "archives" and later government "offices" (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Niermeyer; though also "reliquaries"). Our ability to visualize these carrying cases is assisted somewhat by 269, where one is described as a vas, “vessel” but also “pack,” “kit,” and 330 where Walter attaches them, in the manner of panniers, to the horse: “Scrinia plena gazae lateri suspendit utrique” (“On either side he hangs the coffers filled with treasure.” Kratz). Whether the poet imagines these to be bags, boxes, or circular casks, however, is hard to say. Inconveniently, although Isidore of Seville (d. 636) does include "scrinium" in Etymologies 20.ix (De vasis repositoriis, on storage containers), this is one of those words (like "stuprum" and "texere") that Isidore never got around to etymologizing. It appears between coffer (mozicia) and bag (saccus), but all that is said is the word "scrinium." Modern etymologists concur that the earliest form of the word referred specifically to a container for papers or books (M. de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden, 2008, 547; A Ernout et Antoine Meillet, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine, 4th edn, Paris, 1959, 605). It would be interesting to pursue the notion that the poet is implying that the "riches" are allegorical for some sort of books (or some sort of literature - pagan? Germanic?), but since "scrinium" can be a container of any sort perhaps this is unlikely. SB.}}
+|{{Comment| '''scrinia''' these are presumably large casks. In medieval Latin scrinium often described the cases in which books or papers were held, and by extension, "archives" and later government "offices" (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Niermeyer; though also "reliquaries"). Our ability to visualize these carrying cases is assisted somewhat by 269, where one is described as a vas, “vessel” but also “pack,” “kit,” and 330 where Walter attaches them, in the manner of panniers, to the horse: “Scrinia plena gazae lateri suspendit utrique” (“On either side he hangs the coffers filled with treasure.” Kratz). Whether the poet imagines these to be bags, boxes, or circular casks, however, is hard to say. We know they must be relatively large (despite mediocria), since Walter commands Hildegund to fill them till she can scarcely lift them: "His armillarum tantum da Pannonicarum / Donec vix unum releves ad pectoris imum" ("fill these with so many arm-rings of the Huns / That you can scarcely lift one just up to your breast," 266-267, Kratz). But their shape and appearance remain mysterious. Inconveniently, although Isidore of Seville (d. 636) does include "scrinium" in Etymologies 20.ix (De vasis repositoriis, on storage containers), this is one of those words (like "stuprum" and "texere") that Isidore never got around to etymologizing. It appears between coffer (mozicia) and bag (saccus), but all that is said is the word "scrinium." Modern etymologists concur that the earliest form of the word referred specifically to a container for papers or books (M. de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden, 2008, 547; A Ernout et Antoine Meillet, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine, 4th edn, Paris, 1959, 605). It would be interesting to pursue the notion that the poet is implying that the "riches" are allegorical for some sort of books (or some sort of literature - pagan? Germanic?), but since "scrinium" can be a container of any sort perhaps this is unlikely. SB.}}
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-|{{Comment|'''armillarum''' “arm bands”; rings of precious metal were a common currency for the remuneration of warriors in early medieval kingship. See J. R. Maddicott “Power and Prosperity in the Age of Bede and Beowulf,” Proceedings of the British Academy 117 (2002), 49-71 for some of the intricacies of supporting Germanic kingship on a material level. Compare also Alfred the Great’s translation of Boethius (late ninth century): “In the case of the king, the resources and tools with which to rule are that he must have his land fully manned: he must have praying men, fighting men, and working men. You know also that without these tools no king may make his ability known…[and] he must have the means of support for his tools, the three classes of men. These, then, are their means of support: land to live on, gifts, weapons, food, ale, clothing, and whatever else is necessary…” in Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge, Asser’s Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources (London, 1983), 132. See Ziolkowski 2008 for discussion of the arm bands within this matrix of early medieval kingship. On a more literary level, the strife that these armbands will cause is foreshadowed by the heavy spondaic feel of the line (SSSSDS), in the same way that Aen. 4.124 "speluncam Dido dux et Troianus eandem" foreshadows the fateful consequences of the flight of Dido and Aeneas to the cave in which they consummate their union. SB}}
+|{{Comment|'''armillarum''' “arm bands”; rings of precious metal were a common currency for the remuneration of warriors in early medieval kingship. See J. R. Maddicott “Power and Prosperity in the Age of Bede and Beowulf,” Proceedings of the British Academy 117 (2002), 49-71 for some of the intricacies of supporting Germanic kingship on a material level. Compare also Alfred the Great’s translation of Boethius (late ninth century): “In the case of the king, the resources and tools with which to rule are that he must have his land fully manned: he must have praying men, fighting men, and working men. You know also that without these tools no king may make his ability known…[and] he must have the means of support for his tools, the three classes of men. These, then, are their means of support: land to live on, gifts, weapons, food, ale, clothing, and whatever else is necessary…” in Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge, Asser’s Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources (London, 1983), 132. See Ziolkowski 2008 for discussion of the arm bands within this matrix of early medieval kingship. On a more literary level, the strife that these armbands will cause is foreshadowed by the heavy spondaic feel of both this line and the preceding line (SSSSDS), in the same way that Aen. 4.124 "speluncam Dido dux et Troianus eandem" foreshadows the fateful consequences of the flight of Dido and Aeneas to the cave in which they consummate their union. SB}}
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+|{{Comment|note the heavy, spondaic meter. Perhaps the poet means to emphasize the fateful nature of greed. SB.}}
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 |[[Postquam]] [[septenos]] [[Phoebus]] [[remeaverit]] [[orbes]],