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Bragi Rdr 4III

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 33.

Bragi inn gamli BoddasonRagnarsdrápa
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text and translation

Flaut of set við sveita
sóknar alfs á golfi
hræva dǫgg, þars hǫggnar
hendr sem fœtr of kenndu.
Fell í blóði blandinn
brunn ǫlskakki — runna
þats á Leifa landa
laufi fátt — at haufði.

{Dǫgg hræva} flaut of set við sveita {alfs sóknar} á golfi, þars of kenndu hǫggnar hendr sem fœtr. {Ǫlskakki} fell at haufði í brunn blandinn blóði; þats fátt á {laufi {runna {landa Leifa}}}.
 
‘Dew of corpses [BLOOD] flowed over the bench together with the blood of the elf of attack [WARRIOR = Jǫrmunrekkr] on the floor, where people recognised hewn arms and legs. The ale-dispenser [RULER = Jǫrmunrekkr] fell head-first into a well mixed with blood; that is painted on the leaf of the trees of the lands of Leifi <sea-king> [SEA > SHIPS > SHIELD].

notes and context

This stanza follows immediately upon Rdr 3 in three mss of SnE, R, and C.

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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.

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Skj: Bragi enn gamli, 1. Ragnarsdrápa 4: AI, 1-2, BI, 1, Skald I, 1, NN §§ 1003, 2205A, 2985A; SnE 1848-87, I, 372-3, II, 576, III, 59-60, SnE 1931, 134, SnE 1998, I, 51.

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