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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Manna 1III/3 — greppar ‘poets’

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

[3] greppar: ‘g[…]pr’ B, ‘greppr’ 744ˣ

notes

[3] greppar ‘poets’: In Skm (SnE 1998, I, 105), the list of names for ‘men’ opens with the same heiti: Skáld heita greppar ok rétt er í skáldskap at kenna svá hvern mann ‘Poets are called greppar, and in poetry it is proper to refer thus to any man’.

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