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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Eil Þdr 4III/2 — skerða ‘intersect [the path]’

Vôru vǫtn ok mýrar
— verðr hitt, at þau skerða
(svell vas áðr of alla)
ǫll torráðin (halla).

Ǫlltn ok mýrar vôru torráðin; hitt verðr, at þau skerða; svell vas áðr of alla halla.

All the lakes and marshes were difficult [to traverse]; it happens that they intersect [the path]; ice was already on all the cliffs.

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[2] at þau skerða ‘that they intersect [the path]’: Skerða means ‘notch, diminish, damage’ (LP: skerða). Þau refers to vǫtn ok mýrar ‘lakes and marshes’ (l. 1) and the object has to be completed according to the situation: Þórr and his companion are walking through the wilderness, hence the object must be their path. Lakes and marshes make the progress difficult; they are torráðin ‘difficult (to traverse)’.

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