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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Krm 21VIII

Rory McTurk (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Krákumál 21’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 760.

Anonymous PoemsKrákumál
202122

text and translation

Hjuggu vér með hjörvi.
Há sverð bitu skjöldu,
þar er gullroðinn glumði
geirr við Hildar ræfri.
Sjá mun í Öngulseyju
of aldr mega síðan,
hversu at lögðis leiki
lofðungar fram gengu.
Roðinn var út fyrir eyri
ár flugdreki sára.

Hjuggu vér með hjörvi. Há sverð bitu skjöldu, þar er gullroðinn geirr glumði við {ræfri Hildar}. Mun mega sjá of aldr síðan í Öngulseyju, hversu lofðungar gengu fram at {leiki lögðis}. {Flugdreki sára} var roðinn ár út fyrir eyri.
 
‘We hewed with the sword. Long swords bit shields, where the gold-ornamented spear resounded against the roof of Hildr <valkyrie> [SHIELD]. It may be seen ever afterwards on Anglesey how chieftains went forward in the game of the sword [BATTLE]. The flying dragon of wounds [SPEAR] was reddened early off the sand-bank.

notes and context

[5]: This line exemplifies the consonantless internal half-rhyme (skothending, here on <á> and <ey>) that may occur in lines in which the vowel or diphthong in the cadence is followed by a glide, <j> or <v> (see Kuhn 1983, 78). Cf. the Note to st. 3/9-10, above.

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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

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], H. Krákumál 21: AI, 647, BI, 654, Skald I, 319; Rafn 1826, 18-19, 138-9, Pfeiffer 1860, 126, CPB II, 343, Wisén 1886-9, I, 65, Krm 1891, 227, Finnur Jónsson 1893b, 89, Finnur Jónsson 1905, 156; Ragn 1906-8, 188.

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