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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ESk Øxfl 1III/1 — Þars ‘Where’

Þars Mardallar milli
(meginhurðar) liggr skurða
(Gauts berum galla þrútinn)
grátr (dalreyðar látra).

Þars grátr Mardallar liggr milli skurða; berum galla meginhurðar Gauts, þrútinn látra dalreyðar.

Where the tears of Mardǫll <= Freyja> [GOLD] lie between the grooves; we [I] carry the destroyer of Gautr’s <= Óðinn’s> mighty door [SHIELD > AXE/SWORD], swollen with lairs of the valley-char [SNAKE > GOLD].

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