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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Liðs 9I/4 — roðin ‘reddened’

Hvern morgin sér horna
Hlǫkk á Tempsar bakka
— skalat Hanga má hungra —
hjalmskóð roðin blóði.
Rýðr eigi sá sveigir
sára lauk í ári,
hinns Grjótvarar gætir,
gunnborðs, fyr Stað norðan.

Hvern morgin sér Hlǫkk horna hjalmskóð roðin blóði á bakka Tempsar; má Hanga skalat hungra. Sá sveigir gunnborðs, hinns gætir Grjótvarar fyr norðan Stað, rýðr eigi lauk sára í ári.

Every morning the Hlǫkk <valkyrie> of drinking horns [WOMAN] sees the helmet-destroyers [SWORDS] reddened with blood on the bank of the Thames; the seagull of Hangi <= Óðinn> [RAVEN/EAGLE] must not go hungry. That brandisher of the battle-plank [SHIELD > WARRIOR] who watches over Grjótvǫr [Steinvǫr] to the north of Stad does not redden the leek of wounds [SWORD] in a hurry.

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[4] roðin: lituð , 20dˣ, 873ˣ, 41ˣ

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