Eþsk Couplet 1I
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2012, ‘Einarr þambarskelfir Eindriðason, Couplet 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 452.
Ofveykr ‘Too weak’
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ofveykr (adj.): [Too weak]
all ‘the mighty’
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all- ((prefix)): very < allvaldr (noun m.): mighty ruler
valds ‘ruler’s’
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valdr (noun m.): ruler < allvaldr (noun m.): mighty ruler
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At the battle of Svǫlðr, Einarr, who is an accomplished archer, shoots with deadly accuracy at the attacking fleet. An enemy shot hits his bow, which shatters with a loud crack. King Óláfr asks, ‘What burst there so loudly?’ Einarr answers, ‘Norway from your hands, King’. Óláfr gives him his own bow, which Einarr at once pulls past the point of the arrow, uttering this couplet.
For the sea-battle at Svǫlðr (c. 1000) and other skaldic poetry associated with it, see the entry on Óláfr Tryggvason in ‘Ruler biographies’ in Introduction to this volume.
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