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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Manna 1III/8 — sæl ‘affluent’

Mál es at segja         manna heiti:
greppar ok gumnar,         gumar ok drengir,
gotnar, rekkar,         garpar, seggir,
sveit, snillingar         ok sælkerar.

Mál es at segja heiti manna: greppar ok gumnar, gumar ok drengir, gotnar, rekkar, garpar, seggir, sveit, snillingar ok sælkerar.

It is time to say the names for men: poets and gumnar, gumar and bold men, gotnar, upright men, champions, men, troop, valiant ones and affluent ones.

readings

[8] sæl‑: ‘[…]e᷎l‑’ B, ‘se᷎l‑’ 744ˣ

notes

[8] sælkerar ‘affluent ones’: Cf. the weak verb sælka ‘make happy’ and the adj. sæll ‘blessed, happy’. In Modern Icelandic, sælkeri is a ‘gourmand’. The word is listed in Skm among other terms for ‘generous man’ (SnE 1998, I, 106: Ǫrr maðr heitirsælkeri ‘A generous man is called … sælkeri’), but it is never used in poetry.

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