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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þjóð Haustl 10III/4 — unnr

Urðut bjartra borða
byggvendr at þat hryggvir:
þá vas Ið- með jǫtnum
-unnr nýkomin sunnan.
Gerðusk allar áttir
Ingvi-Freys at þingi
(váru heldr) ok hárar
(hamljót regin) gamlar,

Byggvendr bjartra borða urðut hryggvir at þat: þá vas Iðunnr með jǫtnum nýkomin sunnan. Allar áttir Ingvi-Freys gerðusk gamlar ok hárar at þingi – regin váru heldr hamljót –,

The inhabitants of the bright hillsides [GIANTS] were not sad after that: then Iðunn was among the giants, newly arrived from the south. All the kin of Ingvi-Freyr [GODS] became old and grey at the assembly – the divine powers were quite ugly of form –,

readings

[4] unnr: uðr R, , uðr with ‘unnr’ written above in a later hand W

notes

[3, 4] Iðunnr ‘Iðunn’: The name of a goddess, wife of Bragi (see also Note to Þul Ásynja I 1/7). The two parts of her name (cf. AEW: Iðunn) are separated by tmesis, tellingly punctuated by the phrase með jǫtnum ‘among the giants’. The second element is given as the later form ‘uðr’ in all mss, though a later scribe has written ‘unnr’ above the line in W. The form in ‑unnr must have been original here, as it provides aðalhending with sunn-.

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