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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Sól 22VII/3 — Rýgjar ‘Rýgjar’

En þá eptir        á öðrum degi,
        er þeir höfðu í Rýgjardal riðit,
sverðum þeir meiddu,        þann er saklauss var,
        ok létu hans fjörvi farit.

En þá eptir á öðrum degi, er þeir höfðu riðit í Rýgjardal, meiddu þeir sverðum, þann er saklauss var, ok létu farit fjörvi hans.

And then afterwards on the second day, when they had ridden into Rýgjardalr, they maimed with swords the man who was innocent and deprived him of life.

readings

[3] Rýgjar‑ (‘ryar‑’): eyrar‑ papp15ˣ, 1441ˣ, eyar‑ 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 10575ˣ, rygja‑ 2797ˣ

notes

[3] Rýgjardal ‘valley of the ogress’: On the scribal form, see ANG §203.2. This highly appropriate and alliteratively correct, though elsewhere unattested, p. n. is frequently substituted with actual place names, e.g. Eyrardal in papp15ˣ, or Eyjardal in other mss. There is an Eyrardalur in Suður-Múlasýsla and another in Vestur Ísafjarða-sýsla; Eyjadalur is in the Eyjafjörður district (see Icelandic Gazetteer: Geographical Information System <http://gis.bofh.is/ornefnaskra/>).

grammar

⬅︎ rýgar

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