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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon (FoGT) 14III/8 — bani ‘killer’

Vátr kvað marr á móti:
‘man eg vald yfir þier halda;
skal hrís um lög ljósan
— lamið rót er þá — fljóta.’
Sandr luktaði sundum;
sjór fekk af stað ekki,
en sterkr um bol bjarkar
bani hvess viðar gandi.

Vátr marr kvað á móti: ‘eg man halda vald yfir þier; hrís skal fljóta um ljósan lög; rót er þá lamið.’ Sandr luktaði sundum; sjór fekk ekki af stað, en sterkr bani hvess viðar gandi um bol bjarkar.

The wet sea spoke in reply: ‘I will keep power over you; brushwood will float upon the shining sea; the root will then be smashed.’ Sand blocked channels; the sea got nothing of the land, but the strong killer of every tree [FIRE] gaped around the birch-tree’s trunk.

kennings

grammar

case: nom.

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