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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Svart Skauf 25VIII/6 — gat ‘was’

‘Var gren þetta         grjóti um hvorfið;
mátti hundur þar         hvergi inn komaz.
Gó hann grimmliga,         þá hann gat ekki
garpr ginmikill         gripið mig tönnum.

‘Þetta gren var um hvorfið grjóti; hundur mátti hvergi komaz inn þar. Hann gó grimmliga, þá hann gat ekki gripið mig tönnum, ginmikill garpr.

‘This den was surrounded by stones; the dog could not get in anywhere there. He howled horribly when he was not able to catch me with his teeth, the jaw-mighty fellow.

readings

[6] hann gat: gat hann Rask87ˣ

notes

[6] þá hann gat ekki ‘when he was not able’: Þó gat hann ekki ‘yet he was not able to’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible but less preferable from a metrical point of view, as a Type A with anacrusis rather than a Type C. Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) has gat þó ekki ‘yet [he] was not able to’, which is not supported by either of the mss.

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