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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Eirm 2I/2 — hǫlða ‘men’

‘Es mér ór heimi         hǫlða vánir
gǫfugra nǫkkurra,         svá es mér glatt hjarta.’

‘Es mér vánir nǫkkurra gǫfugra hǫlða ór heimi, svá es hjarta mér glatt.’

‘I expect certain glorious men from the world [of the living], so my heart is glad.’

notes

[2] hǫlða ‘men’: The meaning here is perhaps influenced by OE hæleð ‘heroes’ (Hofmann 1955, 43), though the more general meaning ‘man’ is fairly common in verse: see LP: hǫlðr. The word usually means ‘yeoman, holder of allodial land’.

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