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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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RvHbreiðm Hl 26III/4 — herr ‘the army’

… við geira
galdr allvalda
hafs …
herr unni verr.
Þats of hilmi
harðráðan …

… var snarast.

… við galdr geira allvalda … hafs … herr verr unni. Þats of harðráðan hilmi … var snarast.

… at the incantation of spears [BATTLE] of the mighty rulers … of the ocean … the army defends with the sword. That is about the hard-ruling lord … was the bravest.

readings

[4] herr unni: ‘… unni’ papp25ˣ, R683ˣ

notes

[4] herr ‘the army’: The reading is conjectural. The line must have begun with a monosyllable with an initial h- and the root ‑err (other possibilities would be her (acc. or dat. sg.) ‘army’ or hverr ‘every’). Unni is either ‘sword’ (m. dat. sg.) or ‘granted’ (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of unna). If the latter interpretation is adopted, verr ‘defends’ (3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. of verja) would have to be taken as verr (adv. comp.) ‘worse’: herr unni verr ‘the army granted worse’ (?).

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