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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Glúmr Eir 1III/2 — banda ‘of the bonds’

Brandr fær logs ok landa
lands Eireki banda.

Brandr fær Eireki logs banda lands ok landa.

The sword gains for Eiríkr the flame of the bonds of the land [SEA > GOLD] and lands.

notes

[2] banda lands ‘of the bonds of the land [SEA]’: A typical sea-kenning (cf. ÞSjár Þórdr 1/2I band landa ‘chain of lands [SEA]’), though the pl. base-word banda is unusual (cf. Meissner 94) and could have been caused by metrical demands (a disyllabic word needed in the cadence). Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884, 205-6) obtains the same sense by adopting the A reading land (l. 2) and assuming a cpd landband ‘land-bond’ with tmesis (so also Finnur Jónsson, TGT 1927, 102).

kennings

grammar

case: gen.
number: pl.

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