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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon (LaufE) 9III/4 — foldar ‘of the earth’

Á sá hann falla         eitri blandna;
fákr sparn fótum         foldar sveita.

Hann sá á falla, blandna eitri; fákr sparn sveita foldar fótum.

He saw a river flow, mixed with poison; the horse kicked the blood of the earth [WATER] with its feet.

readings

[4] foldar: ‘–’ 1496ˣ

notes

[4] sveita foldar ‘the blood of the earth [WATER]’: The 2368ˣ, 743ˣ variant, dreyra foldar ‘gore of the earth’, is an equally good reading, but could have been caused by the kenning dreyra dals ‘gore of the valley [WATER]’ in Anon (LaufE) 10/3 (see Note to l. 1 above). Ms. 1496ˣ has an open space with a horizontal line, followed by the word dreyra.

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