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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Bǫðmóðr Lv 1VIII (Ket 28)/6 — *

Hverr er sá inn hávi,         er á haugi sitr
        ok horfir veðri viðr?
Frostharðan mann         hygg ek þik feiknum vera;
        hvat þér hvergi* hlýr.

Hverr er sá inn hávi, er sitr á haugi ok horfir viðr veðri? Ek hygg þik vera feiknum frostharðan mann; hvergi* hvat hlýr þér.

Who is the tall one who sits on the mound and faces into the wind? I think you are a terribly frost-hard man; nowhere does anything shelter you.

readings

[6] hvergi*: hvergis 343a, hvorgis 471

notes

[6] hvergi* hvat hlýr þér ‘nowhere does anything shelter you’: This line is emended to er þér hvatki hlýr ‘where nothing shelters you’ by Finnur Jónsson (Skj B; cf. NN §2391). The gen. form hvergis ‘of what-/whomsoever’ (see ANG §477.2) is emended by all other eds with the exception of Anderson to hvergi ‘nowhere’.

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