Lausavísur — Ásmk LvVIII (Ásm)
Ásmundr kappabanaÁsmundr kappabana, Lausavísur — Vol. 8 — Peter Jorgensen
Peter Jorgensen (forthcoming), ‘ Ásmundr kappabana, Lausavísur’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3103> (accessed 25 April 2024)
Lítt varði mik laga þeira,
at †mik manns einskis ofyr kvæði†,
þá er mik til kappa kuru Húnmegir
átta sinnum fyr jöfurs ríki.
‘I little expected of their laws that …, when the Huns chose me for contests eight times before the king’s realm. ’
Börðumz einn við einn en endr við tvá,
fimm ok fjóra fletmegninga,
sex ok við sjau senn á velli,
einn ok við átta, þó ek enn lifi.
‘We [I] fought one against one and again against two, five and four hall-fighters, six and against seven at a time on the field, and one against eight, yet I am still alive. ’
Þá hvarflaði hugr í brjósti,
er menn ellifu ofrkapp buðu,
áðr mér í svefni sögðu dísir,
at ek hjörleik þann heyja skyldak.
‘Then courage wavered in my breast when eleven men offered violence, until dísir <minor female deities> said to me in my sleep that I should engage in that sword play [BATTLE]. ’
Þá kom inn hári Hildibrandr,
Húnakappi; hann var mér ómakr.
Ok ek markaða meðan á hánum
herkumbl harðlig fyr hjálm neðan.
‘Then came the grey-haired Hildibrandr, champion of the Huns; he was not easy for me to deal with. And meanwhile I marked on him hard war tokens [WOUNDS] beneath his helmet. ’
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