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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Bragi Rdr 8III/7 — bar ‘carried’

Ok ofþerris æða
ósk-Rôn at þat sínum
til fárhuga fœra
feðr veðr boga hugði,
þás hristi-Sif hringa
hals- in bǫls of fyllda
bar til byrjar drǫsla
-baug ørlygis draugi.

Ok ósk-Rôn ofþerris æða hugði fœra veðr boga til fárhuga feðr sínum at þat, þás hristi-Sif hringa, in bǫls of fyllda, bar halsbaug draugi ørlygis til drǫsla byrjar.

And the desiring-Rán <goddess> of the excessive drying of veins [VALKYRIE = Hildr] planned to bring the storm of bows [BATTLE] with hostile intentions against her father after that, when the shaking-Sif <goddess> of rings [VALKYRIE = Hildr], the one filled with malice, carried a neck-ring for the tree-trunk of battle [WARRIOR = Hǫgni] to the steeds of the fair wind [SHIPS].

grammar

mood: indic.
tense: pret.
voice: active.

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