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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ÞjóðA Frag 3II/1 — yngva ‘the prince’

Ganga él of yngva
Ullar skips með fullu,
þars samnagla siglur
slíðrdúkaðar ríða.

Él skips Ullar ganga of yngva með fullu, þars slíðrdúkaðar siglur samnagla ríða.

The storms of Ullr’s <god’s> ship [SHIELD > BATTLES] come upon the prince at full strength, where sheath-covered masts of the rivet [SWORDS] ride high.

readings

[1] yngva: so , A, C, unga R, W, ‘yng[...]’ U

notes

[1] yngva ‘the prince’: Since this is clearly the generic term for ‘prince, king’, the capital letter printed in Skj B is probably unnecessary (though see Note below). The alternative reading unga would, as an adj., have no suitable noun phrase to qualify. Faulkes points out that although ‘vnga’ in R would normally be read as unga ‘young’, <y> and <u> alternate in the scribe’s orthography; he accordingly prints yng<v>a in his text (SnE 1998, I, 69, 143).

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