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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Svart Skauf 36VIII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 36’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 980.

Svartr á HofstöðumSkaufhala bálkr
353637

text and translation

‘Nú tekr elli         að mier sækja;
má eg alls ekki         á mig treysta:
farinn fráleikur,         fitskór troðnir,
tenn sljófgaðar         en toppr ór enni.

‘Nú tekr elli sækja að mier; eg má alls ekki treysta á mig: fráleikur farinn, fitskór troðnir, tenn sljófgaðar en toppr ór enni.
 
‘‘Now old age begins to attack me; I cannot trust in myself at all: swiftness gone, skin-shoes downtrodden, teeth dulled and the tuft [fallen] from my forehead.

notes and context

The sentiments expressed in this stanza resemble Egill Skallagrímsson’s lament about old age; see Egill Lv 46V (Eg 130).

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Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Kölbing 1876, 245, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 234, CPB II, 384, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 159, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 68.

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