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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Rv Lv 25II

Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson, Lausavísur 25’ 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, p. 603.

Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali KolssonLausavísur
242526

text and translation

Nennum vér at vinna
— valfall má nú kalla —
(ár hefr drengr í dreyra)
drómund (roðit skjóma).
Þat mun norðr ok norðan
naddregn konan fregna
— þjóð beið ljótt af lýðum
líftjón — til Nerbónar.

Vér nennum at vinna drómund; má nú kalla valfall; drengr hefr ár roðit skjóma í dreyra. Konan mun fregna {þat naddregn} norðr ok norðan til Nerbónar; þjóð beið ljótt líftjón af lýðum.
 
‘We are minded to overpower the dromon; it may now be called a corpse-fall; the warrior has soon reddened his sword in blood. The woman will hear of that spear-rain [BATTLE] north and from the north to Narbonne; the army suffered ugly life-loss from the men.

notes and context

As for st. 24.

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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: Rǫgnvaldr jarl kali Kolsson, Lausavísur 25: AI, 510, BI, 485, Skald I, 238, NN §§1156, 1987, 2481D; Flat 1860-8, II, 485, Orkn 1887, 173, Orkn 1913-16, 250, ÍF 34, 226-7 (ch. 88), Bibire 1988, 236.

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