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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ErrSt Lv 1III/2 — segi ‘tell’

Enn, þótt ófrið sunnan
ǫll þjóð segi skaldi,
(hlǫðum Geitis mar grjóti)
glaðir nennum vér (þenna).

Enn nennum vér glaðir, þótt ǫll þjóð segi skaldi ófrið sunnan; hlǫðum þenna mar Geitis grjóti.

But we [I] travel cheerfully, though all people tell the poet about disturbance from the south; we [I] freight this steed of Geitir <sea-king> [SHIP] with stone.

readings

[2] segi: segir þat R, segir , W, ‘seg[…]’ U

notes

[2] segi ‘tell’: This subj. form is preferable to indic. segir (as the mss other than A have it), because although there is considerable freedom in the choice of subj. and indic., the indic. after þótt ‘though’ would be exceedingly unusual (see, e.g., Heusler 1967, §422).

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