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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Hfr Óldr 3I/5 — víða ‘Far and wide’

Tíðhǫggvit lét tyggi
Tryggva sonr fyr styggvan
Leiknar hest á lesti
ljótvaxinn hræ Saxa.
Vinhróðigr gaf víða
vísi margra Frísa
blǫkku brúnt at drekka
blóð kveldriðu stóði.

Tyggi, sonr Tryggva, lét hræ Saxa tíðhǫggvit á lesti fyr styggvan, ljótvaxinn hest Leiknar. Víða gaf vinhróðigr vísi blǫkku stóði kveldriðu brúnt blóð margra Frísa at drekka.

The ruler, Tryggvi’s son [= Óláfr Tryggvason], had the corpses of Saxons cut down often, finally, before the edgy, ugly-grown horse of Leikn <troll-woman> [WOLF]. Far and wide the friend-exulting prince gave the black stud of the evening-rider [TROLL-WOMAN > WOLF] the dark blood of many Frisians to drink.

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