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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ÞGísl Búdr 5I/4 — nam ‘started’

Hrutu fyr borð bæði
— brustu herklæði —
hǫfuð ok hendr manna;
hræ nam vargr kanna.

Bæði hǫfuð ok hendr manna hrutu fyr borð; herklæði brustu; vargr nam kanna hræ.

Both heads and hands of men flew overboard; war-garments [ARMOUR] burst; the wolf started to search corpses.

readings

[4] nam: munn Bb

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[4] nam kanna ‘started to search’: Nam could alternatively be taken as an auxiliary verb without independent meaning. 

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