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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Valg Har 1II/2 — skeiðr ‘warships’

Skilfingr, helzt, þars skulfu
skeiðr, fyr lǫnd in breiðu
— auð varð suðr of síðir
Sikiley — liði miklu.

Skilfingr, helzt miklu liði fyr in breiðu lǫnd, þars skeiðr skulfu; suðr varð Sikiley of síðir auð.

Lord, you led a large host past the wide lands where warships shook; in the south Sicily was finally laid waste.

notes

[2] skeiðr ‘warships’: Usually skeið denotes a type of warship (see Falk 1912, 104-5; Jesch 2001a, 123-6).

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