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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Viðar 3III/8 — cípressuscípressus

Lind, lág ok linnr,         lyng, skíð, pera,
þǫll ok þyrnir,         þinurr, storð ok klungr,
mǫsurr ok grǫn tvenn         ok marhrísla,
ilstri, vínviðr,         jǫlstr, cípressus.

Lind, lág ok linnr, lyng, skíð, pera, þǫll ok þyrnir, þinurr, storð ok klungr, mǫsurr ok grǫn tvenn ok marhrísla, ilstri, vínviðr, jǫlstr, cípressus.

Linden, log and serpent, heather, firewood, pear-tree, fir and bramble, fir, sapling and wild briar, burl and two pines and mare-twig, willow, vine, willow, cípressus.

readings

[8] cípressus: ‘cy᷎pressv[…]’ B, ‘cýpressus’ 744ˣ

notes

[8] cípressus: Like laurus in st. 2/5, this is a foreign word (= Lat. cypressus ‘cypress’; cf. the 744ˣ variant cýpressus). The word is not found in Old Norse, but cypressis tre ‘cypress tree’ is given in the C16th ms. of Nikuláss saga af Tólentínó (Loth 1969-70, II, 165).  See also Introduction to Anon Þulur.

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