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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ǪrvOdd Lv 6VIII (Ǫrv 36)/7 — hróðr ‘impudent’

Þit skuluð hlýða         hróðri mínum,
Sigurðr ok Sjólfr,         sessunautar.
Ykr á ek gjalda         greypan verka,
hróðr harðsnúinn,         huglausum tveim.

Sigurðr ok Sjólfr, þit sessunautar skuluð hlýða hróðri mínum. Ek á gjalda ykr tveim huglausum greypan verka, harðsnúinn hróðr.

Sigurðr and Sjólfr, you two bench companions must listen to my praise poetry. I have to pay back you two thoughtless fellows for [your] coarse composition, impudent poetry.

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[7] harðsnúinn hróðr ‘impudent poetry’: Normally hróðr means ‘praise, praise poetry’, as it does in l. 2 above, but here it seems to have a more general sense, as what Sjólfr and Sigurðr have recited about Oddr is hardly praise. Harðsnúinn ‘impudent’ means lit. ‘hard-twisted’.

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