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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Sjóvar 2III/5 — glýjuðr ‘bright one’

Sund, ǫgr, velfœrr,         sími ok víðir,
hríð, ver, breki,         húm, flóð ok brim,
grœðir, glýjuðr,         gymir ok vægir,
gniðr ok órór,         gjalfr, fen, snapi.

Sund, ǫgr, velfœrr, sími ok víðir, hríð, ver, breki, húm, flóð ok brim, grœðir, glýjuðr, gymir ok vægir, gniðr ok órór, gjalfr, fen, snapi.

Sound, inlet, easily crossable one, rope and wide one, tempest, fishing-place, breaker, dark one, flood and surf, swelling one, bright one, engulfer and wavy one, murmur and unquiet one, surge, fen, snuffling one.

readings

[5] glýjuðr: ‘glioðr’ , C, ‘ok glýro᷎dr’ B

notes

[5] glýjuðr (m.) ‘bright one’: Or ‘glad one’. Cf. the adj. glýjaðr ‘glad’ (p. p. of the weak verb glýja ‘be cheerful’), glý f. ‘glee, happiness’. For the meaning ‘bright’, see AEW: glýjuðr as well as glýja f. ‘dazzling from brightness’ and glýra f. ‘glitter’. Not otherwise attested as a heiti for ‘sea’.

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