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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Hróksv Hrkv 4VIII (Hálf 54)/2 — lið ‘a host’

Höfðu vér allir         haukmanna lið,
hvar sem fróðhugaðr         frama kostaði.
Gengum vér í gegnum         með grá hjálma
fullstór öll         fóstrlönd níu.

Höfðu[m] vér allir lið haukmanna, hvar sem fróðhugaðr kostaði frama. Vér gengum með grá hjálma í gegnum öll níu fullstór fóstrlönd.

We all had a host of hawk-like men, wherever the wise-minded one tried his luck. We went with grey helmets through all nine vast homelands.

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[2] lið ‘a host’: Some eds (Hálf 1864Edd. Min., Skj B, Skald) replace the ms. reading lið by lund ‘mind, temperament’, probably because there is an adj. hauklundaðr/hauklundr/hauklyndr ‘with a hawk-like temperament’ (see LP: hauklundaðr), but it is not necessary to emend to obtain good sense.

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