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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Bárðr Lv 1I/4 — einn ‘by myself’

Hugðak hitt, at hefðak
harðhendit þat stundum,
at skalpgrana skozkum
skyldak einn of halda.

Hugðak hitt, at hefðak harðhendit þat stundum, at skyldak einn of halda skozkum skalpgrana.

I would have thought that I’d manhandled such a thing [lit. that] at times, so that I ought to be able to hang on to a nimble sheath-mouth by myself.

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[4] skyldak einn of halda (‘skyllda ek einn of hallda’): ‘sk[...]’ 325VIII 2 a;    einn: enn 54, en Bb

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