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Bragi Rdr 9III

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 41.

Bragi inn gamli BoddasonRagnarsdrápa
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text and translation

Bauða sú til bleyði
bœti-Þrúðr at móti
malma mætum hilmi
men dreyrugra benja.
Svá lét ey, þótt etti,
sem orrostu letti,
jǫfrum ulfs at sinna
með algífris lifru.

{Sú bœti-Þrúðr dreyrugra benja} bauða mætum hilmi men til bleyði at {móti malma}. Svá lét ey, sem letti orrostu, þótt etti jǫfrum at sinna með {lifru algífris ulfs}.
 
‘That curing-Þrúðr <goddess> of bloody wounds [VALKYRIE = Hildr] did not offer the splendid ruler the neck-ring for the sake of cowardice at the assembly of weapons [BATTLE]. Thus she continually behaved as if she was hindering the battle, although she was inciting the princes to accompany the sister of the complete monster of a wolf [Fenrir] [= Hel].

notes and context

As for st. 8.

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Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Bragi enn gamli, 1. Ragnarsdrápa 9: AI, 2, BI, 2, Skald I, 2, NN §§193, 1853I; SnE 1848-87, I, 436-7, III, 84, SnE 1931, 155, SnE 1998, I, 73.

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