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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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SnSt Ht 71III/3 — Haka ‘of Haki’

Slóð kann sneiðir
seima geima
hnigfák Haka
hleypa greypa,
hinns af hlunni
hesta festa
lætr leyfðr skati
langa ganga.

Sneiðir seima kann hleypa hnigfák Haka greypa slóð geima, leyfðr skati, hinns lætr langa hesta festa ganga af hlunni.

The cutter of gold [GENEROUS MAN] can make the bucking horse of Haki <sea-king> [SHIP] run across the rough track of the sea, the praised lord, the one who makes long horses of moorings [SHIPS] step off the launching roller.

readings

[3] Haka: corrected from hafa in scribal hand R

notes

[3] hnigfák Haka ‘the bucking horse of Haki <sea-king> [SHIP]’: As Faulkes (SnE 2007, 123: hnigfákr) points out, Fákr is the name of a horse in Skm (Anon Kálfv 1/4) and its rider is Haki (see SnE 1998, I, 89).

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