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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ESk Frag 12III/2 — varar ‘of the wake’

Haustkǫld skotar héldum
holmrǫnd varar ǫndri.

Haustkǫld holmrǫnd skotar héldum ǫndri varar.

The autumn-cold island-rim [SEA] shoves the rime-covered ski of the wake [SHIP].

notes

[2] varar (f. gen. sg.) ‘of the wake’: For the meaning of vǫr (gen. varar) ‘wake, track of keel-water’, see Heggstad et al. 2008: vǫr f. II. 1. The word can also mean ‘stony pier’ or ‘oar-stroke’, both of which would be an acceptable determinant in a ship-kenning. Faulkes (SnE 1998, I; II, 431-2) adopts the m. form vǫrr ‘wake of a ship’, gen. varrar, which is unmetrical because the syllable in metrical position 3 must be short (var- not varr-).

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