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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Svart Skauf 38VIII/8 — vinna ‘doing’

‘Það hlægir mig:         þó mun hier koma
ór ætt minni         annarr verri.
Hann mun mann gjöra         margan sauðlausan
og aldri upp giefa         ilt að vinna.

‘Það hlægir mig: þó mun annarr verri koma hier ór ætt minni. Hann mun gjöra margan mann sauðlausan og aldri giefa upp að vinna ilt.

‘This cheers me: another, worse, will nonetheless emerge here out of my family. He’ll make many a man sheepless and never desist from doing harm.

readings

[8] vinna: gjöra Rask87ˣ

notes

[8] vinna ‘doing’: Lit. ‘do’. Gjöra ‘do’ (Rask87ˣ) is less preferable from a metrical point of view, producing suspended resolution on the second lift, and repeats gjöra ‘do’ in l. 5.

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