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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ESk Frag 14III/4 — rifjum ‘the reefs’

Viknar ramr í Rakna
reksaumr flugastraumi;
dúks hrindr bǫl, þars bleikir
bifgrund, á stag rifjum.

Ramr reksaumr viknar í flugastraumi Rakna; bǫl dúks hrindr rifjum á stag, þars bifgrund bleikir.

The strong seam of driven nails flexes in the cascade of Rakni <sea-king> [SEA]; the harm of the sail [WIND] forces the reefs against the stay, where the trembling ground [SEA] goes white.

readings

[4] rifjum: ‘r[…]’ U, ‘rífín’ 744ˣ

notes

[4] rifjum ‘the reefs’: The reef (rif) is the horizontal strip of the sail that can be pulled up to shorten the sail (see Falk 1912, 68-9, SnE 1998, II, 376-7 and Jesch 2001a, 163).

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