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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Gunnh Lv 1I/4 — gramr ‘the prince’

Hô- reið á bak bôru
borðhesti -kun vestan;
skǫrungr léta brim bíta
bǫrð, es gramr hefr Fjǫrðu.

Hôkun reið borðhesti vestan á bak bôru; skǫrungr léta bǫrð bíta brim, es gramr hefr Fjǫrðu.

Hákon rode the plank-horse [SHIP] from the west on the billow’s back; the champion did not let the ship’s stems bite the surf, for the prince [now] has Fjordane.

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[4] gramr ‘the prince’: Hákon: see Note to ll. 3-4.

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