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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Manna 4III/7 — helmingr ‘band of warriors’

Þá es glæsimaðr         ok gullskati;
þá eru snyrtimenn         ok sælkerar,
auðkýfingar         ok oflátar,
herr ok helmingr         ok hǫfðingjar.

Þá es glæsimaðr ok gullskati; þá eru snyrtimenn ok sælkerar, auðkýfingar ok oflátar, herr ok helmingr ok hǫfðingjar.

Then there is illustrious man and gold-skati; then there are elegant men and affluent ones, money-bags and show-offs, army and band of warriors and chieftains.

notes

[7] helmingr ‘band of warriors’: Lit. ‘half’ (see AEW: helmingr, helmningr, helfningr). In poetry this word is used only as a term for ‘band of warriors, military unit’. Faulkes (SnE 1998, II, 307) suggests that the original meaning of this heiti may have been ‘helmeted troop’.

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