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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ÞjóðA Sex 8II/2 — fingnum ‘captured’

Ok hertoga hneykir
herfingnum lét stinga
— leyfð berk hans — ór hǫfði
haugs skundaði augu.

Ok hneykir hertoga lét stinga augu ór hǫfði herfingnum skundaði haugs; berk leyfð hans.

And the confounder of war-leaders [RULER] had the eyes stabbed out of the head of the war-captured impeller of the mound [GENEROUS RULER]; I proffer a eulogy of him [Haraldr].

readings

[2] ‑fingnum: ‘fengnum’ R, , C, ‘‑feinngium’ B

notes

[2] herfingnum ‘war-captured’: The form -fingnum is secured by the rhyme on stinga. It is dat. sg. of p. p. finginn, a variant on fenginn apparently modelled on pret. pl. fingum (later fengum; ANG §504 and Anm. 5; Finnur Jónsson 1901, 98).

kennings

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