Stúfsdrápa §
Edited by Kari Ellen Gade
hizig ‘there’
[4] hizig suðr fyr Nizi ‘there south of the Nissan’: This l. could also belong to the first cl.: ‘The fame-eager ruler cut down the troop of warriors with both hands there south of the Nissan’. The Nissan is a river in Halland, present-day Sweden (then a part of Denmark).
Closesuðr ‘south’
2. suðr (adv.): south, in the south
[4] hizig suðr fyr Nizi ‘there south of the Nissan’: This l. could also belong to the first cl.: ‘The fame-eager ruler cut down the troop of warriors with both hands there south of the Nissan’. The Nissan is a river in Halland, present-day Sweden (then a part of Denmark).
Closefyr ‘of’
fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
[4] hizig suðr fyr Nizi ‘there south of the Nissan’: This l. could also belong to the first cl.: ‘The fame-eager ruler cut down the troop of warriors with both hands there south of the Nissan’. The Nissan is a river in Halland, present-day Sweden (then a part of Denmark).
CloseNizi ‘the Nissan’
[4] hizig suðr fyr Nizi ‘there south of the Nissan’: This l. could also belong to the first cl.: ‘The fame-eager ruler cut down the troop of warriors with both hands there south of the Nissan’. The Nissan is a river in Halland, present-day Sweden (then a part of Denmark).
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