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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Krm 26VIII/6 — ossar ‘our’

Hjuggu vér með hjörvi.
Hér mundu nú allir
burir Áslaugar bröndum
bitrum hildi vekja,
ef vandliga vissi
um viðfarar ossar,
hvé ófáir ormar
eitrfullir mik slíta.
Móðernis fekk ek mínum
mögum, svá at hjörtun dugðu.

Hjuggu vér með hjörvi. Allir burir Áslaugar mundu nú vekja hildi hér bitrum bröndum, ef vissi vandliga um viðfarar ossar, hvé ófáir eitrfullir ormar slíta mik. Ek fekk mögum mínum móðernis, svá at hjörtun dugðu.

We hewed with the sword. All the sons of Áslaug would now start a battle here with sharp swords, if they knew fully about our treatment, how numerous poisonous snakes are tearing at me. I gave my sons such a mother that their hearts stood firm.

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[5-6] ef vissi vandliga um ossar viðfarar ‘if they knew fully about our treatment’: The speaker is referring solely to his own predicament here. On the frequency in poetry of oss-forms of the 1st pers. pl. poss. adj. várr ‘our’, see Finnur Jónsson (1901, 77).

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