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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þfagr Frag 1III/3 — þars ‘where’

Sær þýtr, en berr bára
bjart lauðr of við rauðan,
gránn, þars golli búnum
gínn hlunnvisundr munni.

Gránn sær þýtr, en bára berr bjart lauðr of rauðan við, þars hlunnvisundr gínn golli búnum munni.

The grey sea roars, and the wave carries bright foam around the red wood where the roller-bison [SHIP] gapes with its gold-adorned mouth.

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[3-4] þars hlunnvisundr gínn golli búnum munni ‘where the roller-bison [SHIP] gapes with its gold-adorned mouth’: This refers to the golden ornamental animal head affixed to the prow of a ship (see Falk 1912, 105-7 and Jesch 2001a, 127-8). For similar imagery of the ocean playing with such golden heads on a royal vessel, see Valg Har 10II, 11/1-4II.

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