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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ÞjóðA Har 4II

Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Stanzas about Haraldr Sigurðarson’s leiðangr 4’ 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. 154-5.

Þjóðólfr ArnórssonStanzas about Haraldr Sigurðarson’s leiðangr
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text and translation

Sorgar veit, áðr slíti
sæfang ór mar strǫngum
herr, þars heldr til varra,
hár sjau tøgum ára.
Norðmeðr róa naðri
neglðum straum inn heglða
— úts, sem innan líti
arnarvæng — með jarni.

Sorgar veit, áðr herr slíti sæfang ór strǫngum mar, þars hár heldr sjau tøgum ára til varra. Norðmeðr róa naðri neglðum með jarni inn heglða straum; úts, sem líti innan arnarvæng.
 
‘Anguish will be felt, before the troop whips the sea-gear [oar] out of the powerful sea, where the oarport holds [each of] the seventy oars in place for the stroke [lit. strokes]. The Norwegians row the snake [ship] nailed with iron on the hail-beaten current; [looking] out, it is like seeing an eagle’s wing from within.

notes and context

This follows st. 3 with no link in Hkr, but with brief links in and H-Hr.

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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: Þjóðolfr Arnórsson, 4. Lausavísur 21: AI, 381-2, BI, 351-2, Skald I, 177, NN §§872, 3088; Hkr 1893-1901, III, 157, IV, 225, ÍF 28, 143, Hkr 1991, 652 (HSig ch. 60), F 1871, 226, E 1916, 72-3; 1952, 25; Fms 6, 309-10 (HSig ch. 76), Fms 12, 154.

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