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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon (FoGT) 33III/8 — verka ‘sins’

Víngarðr hafði öl-Gefn orðið
(unda vargs), sú er nú eru margar,
(neytir skili þann krók) með k*æti,
kvensku heft og látið eftir.
Fyrðum dugir, að ósiðr orða
— oss vægðu, guð, jafnan — lægðiz;
vára þó hann í vatni skíru
verka sekt og píslarmerki.

Öl-Gefn, sú er nú eru margar, hafði orðið víngarðr með k*æti og látið eftir kvensku heft; neytir vargs unda skili þann krók. Dugir fyrðum, að ósiðr orða lægðiz; guð, vægðu oss jafnan; hann þó sekt verka vára í skíru vatni og píslarmerki.

The ale-Gefn <= Freyja> [WOMAN], she who now are many, had become a vineyard with cheerfulness and abandoned her preserved chastity; let the user of the wolf of wounds [AXE > WARRIOR] understand that obscurity. It helps men that a bad habit of words should be diminished; God, spare us always; he washed the guilt of our sins in pure water and in the sign of his passion.

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