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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þjóð Haustl 1III/4 — radd ‘voice’

Hvé skalk gótt at gjǫldum
gunnveggjar brú leggja

raddkleif at Þórleifi.
Týframra sék tíva
trygglaust of far þriggja
á hreingǫru hlýri
Hildar fats ok Þjaza.

Hvé skalk leggja … gótt ... at gjǫldum brú gunnveggjar ... raddkleif at Þórleifi. Sék trygglaust of far þriggja týframra tíva ok Þjaza á hreingǫru hlýri fats Hildar.

How can I provide … good ... as recompense for the bridge of the battle-wall [SHIELD-WALL > SHIELD] ... voice-cliff [SHIELD] from Þorleifr. I see the insecure situation of three god-bold deities and Þjazi on the brightly made surface of the clothing of Hildr <valkyrie> [ARMOUR > SHIELD-FACE].

readings

[4] raddkleif: ‘[…]’ R, naddkleif , ‘[…]addkleif’ W

notes

[4] raddkleif ‘voice-cliff [SHIELD]’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj A) reported in a note that the initial <r> of this cpd was beskadiget ‘damaged’ in W, though he gives ‘raddkleif’ in the variant readings, while Faulkes (SnE 1998, I, 139) claimed it was illegible by the time he came to examine it, and it is illegible now. The shield-kenning is unusual, and may not be complete, assuming the rest of an inverted tvíkent kenning comprised the gen. of a word for ‘weapon’, whose voice is battle, and whose cliff is a shield (cf. SnE 1998, II, 372). Holtsmark (1949, 9) adopts ’s reading naddkleif ‘spear-point cliff [SHIELD]’.

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