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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Gestumbl Heiðr 10VIII (Heiðr 57)

[All]: King Heiðrekr’s response reads (Heiðr 1960, 80): smækkask nú gáturnar, en þat er hagl ok regn, því at hagli lýstr á stræti, en regnsdropar søkkva í sand ok sœkja í jǫrð ‘the riddles now grow trivial, but that is hail and rain, because hail strikes upon the road, but raindrops sink into the sand and push on into the earth’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Heiðr 1960 = Tolkien, Christopher, ed. and trans. 1960. Saga Heiðreks konungs ins vitra / The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise. Nelson Icelandic Texts. London etc.: Nelson.

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