Diana Whaley (ed.) 2017, ‘Glúmr Geirason, Poem about Eiríkr blóðøx 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 194.
Brandr fær logs ok landa
lands Eireki banda.
Brandr fær Eireki {logs {banda lands}} ok landa.
‘The sword gains for Eiríkr the flame of the bonds of the land [SEA > GOLD] and lands. ’
The couplet is cited to illustrate a variety of the rhetorical figure of silemsis or syllepsis in which one item represents several of the same kind. In this case brandr ‘sword’ represents many swords.
For a similar statement that the sword has won territory for a ruler (in this case Sigurðr jarl), see KormǪ Sigdr 2/3-4.
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Brandr fær logs ok landa
land Eireki banda.
Brandr fęr logs ok landa land eiriki banda .
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Brandr fær logs ok landa
lands Eireki banda.
Brandr | fær logs ok landa landz eiriki banda.
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