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Anon Pl 21VII

Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 21’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 194-5.

Anonymous PoemsPlácitusdrápa
202122

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Sinn bar of ô, þás annan,
ástvitjuðr, lét sitja,
hraustr erfingja, hristir
Hlakkar skins á bakka.
Ok þás annan sœkja
auðgildir son vildi,
stóð umb ok sásk síðan
sviðr þegn at ô miðri.

{Ástvitjuðr} bar erfingja sinn of ô, þás {hraustr hristir {skins Hlakkar}} lét annan sitja á bakka. Ok þás {auðgildir} vildi sœkja annan son, stóð sviðr þegn at miðri ô ok sásk síðan umb.
 
‘The seeker of love [HOLY MAN] carried his heir over the river, while the strong shaker of the gleam of Hlǫkk <valkyrie> [SWORD > WARRIOR] left the other sitting on the bank. And when the wealth-payer [GENEROUS MAN] wanted to fetch his other son, the wise man stopped in the middle of the river and then looked about him.

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Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [1]. Plácítúsdrápa 21: AI, 611, BI, 612, Skald I, 298, NN §2553; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1833, 19-20, 48, Finnur Jónsson 1887, 235, Louis-Jensen 1998, 103.

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