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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þjsk Jarl 1I/3 — mǫkkr ‘the cloud’

Þoku dregr upp it ýtra;
él festisk it vestra
(mǫkkr mun náms) af nøkkvi
(naðrbings kominn hingat).

Þoku dregr upp it ýtra; él festisk it vestra af nøkkvi; mǫkkr náms naðrbings mun kominn hingat.

Fog rises up on the outer side; a storm gathers in the west for some reason; the cloud from the taking of the adder-bed [GOLD] must have come this way.

readings

[3] mǫkkr (‘mokkr’): ‘nockur’ 4867ˣ, 563aˣ

notes

[3, 4] mǫkkr náms naðrbings ‘the cloud from the taking of the adder-bed [GOLD]’: That is, presumably, the smoke and soot from Þorleifr’s burned ship. Nám m. ‘seizure, taking’ occurs nowhere else as a simplex (though cf. landnám ‘land-taking, settlement’) and mǫkkr m. ‘cloud’ appears otherwise only in a C13th stanza (Guðbr Frag 2/1III) and in the name Mǫkkurkálfi, given to a giant animated figure made of clay (SnE 1998, I, 21-2). Although the gen. case of náms is unexpected, the sense of the phrase is clear enough.

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