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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Máni Lv 5III/2 — drengjum ‘the young men’

Hvat munt hafs á otri,
hengiligr, með drengjum,
karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask,
kinngrár, mega vinna?

Hvat munt mega vinna með drengjum á otri hafs, hengiligr, kinngrár karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask?

What will you be able to accomplish among the young men on the otter of the ocean [SHIP], slouching, grey-cheeked fellow, since your strength is waning?

readings

[2] drengjum: so all others, drengum R

notes

[2] drengjum ‘the young men’: Drengr is taken here in the meaning ‘young man’ as juxtaposed to the slouching old man with a grey beard. For the different meanings of drengr, see Goetting (2006). The R variant, drengum, presupposes that the word was inflected as an a-stem rather than an i-stem here, which is unusual but not impossible (see ANG §389 Anm. 4).

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