Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 39’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 618.
Þar er ekki ilt
og ekki vilt;
fæz ekki aungt
og ekki þraungt.
Þar er ekki ilt og ekki vilt; fæz ekki aungt og ekki þraungt.
‘There nothing is evil and nothing false; there will be nothing cramped and nothing constricted.’
As for st. 38. Repetition occurs here in the middle of lines.
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