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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ÞjJ Lv 1VIII (ÞJ 1)/8 — ef ‘if’

Halda hlífðar aldri
hljótendr á hlyn spjóta;
verðk af veigarskorðum
vaka ár af því fári.
Enn munu örva sennu
ýtendr of mik flýta
orð, at eigi verðak
altryggr, ef nú gyggvir.

Hljótendr hlífðar halda aldri á hlyn spjóta; verðk vaka ár af því fári af veigarskorðum. Ýtendr sennu örva munu enn flýta orð of mik, at verðak eigi altryggr, ef nú gyggvir.

The possessors of the shield [WARRIORS] will never hinder the maple of spears [WARRIOR]; I have to lie awake early on account of that pain caused by the props of drink [WOMEN]. The launchers of the quarrel of arrows [BATTLE > WARRIORS] will nonetheless be quick with words about me, such that I should not be completely safe, if I now quail.

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