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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Ormr Woman 6III/4 — garð ‘the fence’

Hróðrar njóti funa Fríðr
— Fundins mærða*k salar grund —
(fastan lagðak flagðs gust)
fjarðar (á brims garð).

Fríðr funa fjarðar njóti hróðrar; mærða*k grund salar Fundins; lagðak fastan gust flagðs á garð brims.

May the Fríðr <goddess> of the fire of the fjord [GOLD > WOMAN] enjoy my praise; I honoured the land of the hall of Fundinn <dwarf> [STONE > WOMAN]; I set my steadfast gust of the troll-woman [MIND] on the fence of the surf [WAVE].

notes

[4] garð brims ‘the fence of the surf [WAVE]’: This must be a kenning for ‘wave’, formed according to the pattern ‘mountain/cliff/crag of the sea’ (Meissner 99). It is evidently an ofljóst construction for the name of the poet’s beloved, which might have been Sæunn lit. ‘Sea-wave’, Unnr ‘Wave’ or similar (Jón Helgason 1966a).

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