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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Boga 1III/3 — sveigr ‘bending one’

Almr, dalr, bogi,         ýr ok tvíviðr,
sveigr, glær ok þrymr,         sómr, skálgelmir.

Almr, dalr, bogi, ýr ok tvíviðr, sveigr, glær ok þrymr, sómr, skálgelmir.

Elm, hollow, bow, yew and double-wood, bending one, glaring one and noise, seemly one, hollow-clanger.

readings

[3] sveigr: sveigr ok C

notes

[3] sveigr (m.) ‘bending one’: The word is probably derived from a strong verb *svíga ‘bend’ (cf. ModSwed. dialects swīga ‘bend, give way’). See also the weak verb sveigja ‘bend’ and sveigr m. ‘twig, switch’. As a heiti for ‘bow’, the word is not found elsewhere in skaldic poetry, but it is attested in the later rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: sveigr).

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