Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 40’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 618.
Þar er ómælt vald
og ágætt vald;
þar er algört vald
og eilíft vald.
Þar er ómælt vald og ágætt vald; þar er algört vald og eilíft vald.
‘There is unmeasured power and excellent power; there is complete power and eternal power.’
As for st. 38. Repetition occurs here at the ends of lines.
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