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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Svart Skauf 34VIII/5 — eingi ‘No one’

‘Forðaz vissa eg         vielar gjörvallar,
þó að fyrðar þær         fyrir mig setti.
Þurfti eingi         þess að leita,
því að eg vissa         vielar gjörvallar.

‘Eg vissa forðaz gjörvallar vielar, þó að fyrðar setti þær fyrir mig. Eingi þurfti að leita þess, því að eg vissa gjörvallar vielar.

‘I knew how to escape every single trap, though people set them for me. No one needed to try that, because I knew all traps.

readings

[5] eingi: einginn Rask87ˣ

notes

[5] eingi ‘no one’: Einginn ‘no one’ (Rask87ˣ) is a later form (attested in the second half of the C14th and common in the C15th; see Björn K. Þórólfsson 1925, 50 and Bandle 1956, 373).

grammar

Pronouns and determiners: engi (none, no)

masc.fem.neut.
sing. N
A
G
D
engi
engan, engi
engis, enskis
engum
engi
enga
engrar
engri
ekki
ekki
engis, enskis
engu
pl. N
A
G
D
engir
enga
engra
engum
engar
engar
engra
engum
engi
engi
engra
engum
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