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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Árm Lv 2II

Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Ármóðr, Lausavísur 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 621-2.

ÁrmóðrLausavísur
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text and translation

Hrǫnns fyr Humru mynni
háleit, þars vér beitum;
sveigir lauk, en lægjask
lǫnd fyr Veslu sǫndum.
Eigi drífr í augu
alda lauðri faldin
— drengr ríðr þurr af þingi —
þeim, es nú sitr heima.

Hrǫnns háleit fyr mynni Humru, þars vér beitum; lauk sveigir, en lǫnd lægjask fyr sǫndum Veslu. Alda, faldin lauðri, drífr eigi í augu þeim, es nú sitr heima; drengr ríðr þurr af þingi.
 
‘The swell is lofty before Humber’s mouth, where we are tacking; the mast sways, and lands become lower off Vesla’s sands. The wave, capped with foam, is not driving into the eyes of the one who is sitting at home now; the fellow rides dry from the assembly.

notes and context

Rǫgnvaldr leaves Orkney with fifteen ships on his crusade to the Holy Land. As they sail along the Northumbrian coast, Ármóðr declaims this st.

The crusaders set out in the summer of 1151 (ÍF 34, lxxxviii). — [8]: Echoes Sigm Lv 2/2.

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editions and texts

Skj: Ármóðr, Lausavísur 2: AI, 530-1, BI, 511, Skald I, 250, NN §3119A; Flat 1860-8, II, 478, Orkn 1887, 159, Orkn 1913-16, 231, ÍF 34, 208-9 (ch. 86), Bibire 1988, 232.

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