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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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RvHbreiðm Hl 53III/7 — hyr ‘of the fire’

Ák frá Óláfi
eiðar þrár meiðum
sløngði *á* svanvengi
Selju mens — telja.
Fréttu fleystéttar
— fengu gjǫf drengir —
harðir hyr-Nirðir
hildings fémildi.

Ák telja frá Óláfi; þrár eiðar sløngði meiðum mens Selju *á* svanvengi. Harðir fleystéttar hyr-Nirðir fréttu fémildi hildings; drengir fengu gjǫf.

I must tell about Óláfr; the one firm of oath flung trees of Selja’s <island’s> necklace [SEA > SHIPS] onto the swan-meadow [SEA]. Harsh Nirðir <gods> of the fire of the ship-path [(lit. ‘ship-path’s fire-Nirðir’) SEA > GOLD > MEN] heard about the leader’s generosity; the warriors received a gift.

readings

[7] hyr‑: her‑ papp25ˣ, R683ˣ

notes

[7] hyr-Nirðir ‘fire-Nirðir <gods>’: Following most earlier eds, her-Nirðir ‘army-Nirðir <gods> [WARRIORS]’ has been emended to hyr-Nirðir as a part of the kenning fleystéttar hyr-Nirðir ‘the Nirðir <gods> of the fire of the ship-path [(lit. ‘ship-path’s fire-Nirðir’) SEA > GOLD > MEN]’. Although her-Nirðir ‘army-Nirðir’ (so SnE 1848, 244) could be taken as a kenning for ‘warriors’, such a kenning would leave a dangling determinant (fleystéttar ‘of the ship-path’, l. 5). For Nirðir ‘gods’ see Note to st. 6/3.

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