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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ÓTr Lv 2I/5 — ... ‘...’

Gestr skal einu         í gǫgn taka,
meðan Hvítinga         hvílask lôtum.
... þenna         þegn Goðmundar
af samnafna         sínum drekki.

Gestr skal taka í gǫgn einu, meðan lôtum Hvítinga hvílask. ... þenna þegn Goðmundar drekki af samnafna sínum.

The guest shall take hold of one [horn], while we let the Hvítingar rest. ... this retainer of Guðmundr that he drink from his namesake.

readings

[5] ... þenna: þenna 62, þennan 54

notes

[5, 8] ... drekki ‘... that he drink’: Syntax and metre suggest that a word is missing here, though there is no indication of this in the mss. Finnur Jónsson (Skj BI, 682) suggested a repetition of ltum ‘let us allow / we allow’, while Ólafur Halldórsson (ÓT) suggests biðjum ‘let us ask / we ask’, although either of these would more naturally be followed by the inf. drekka than by the subj. drekki.

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