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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Sverða 4III/1 — Vægir ‘Wavy one’

Vægir, veigarr,         vallangr ok brandr,
verulfr, valnir,         vindbjartr ok kvǫl,
askr, Angrvaðill,         eggjumskarpi,
svipuðr ok svipaljótr,         salgarðr, hnefi.

Vægir, veigarr, vallangr ok brandr, verulfr, valnir, vindbjartr ok kvǫl, askr, Angrvaðill, eggjumskarpi, svipuðr ok svipaljótr, salgarðr, hnefi.

Wavy one, threaded one, corpse-long one and blade, man-wolf, chosen one, wind-bright one and torment, ash, Angrvaðill, edge-sharp one, swooper and ugly-swooping one, hall-fence, fist.

readings

[1] Vægir: vegir , Vægileiptr A, ‘Veg[…] leiptr’ B, ‘Vegí leíptr’ 744ˣ

notes

[1] vægir (m.) ‘wavy one’: Perhaps a pattern-welded blade, a sword with wavy ornamentation (from vágr m. ‘wave’; cf. OE wǣgsweord ‘sword with wavy ornamentation’, Beowulf l. 1489, Beowulf 2008, 51; so Falk 1914b, 63; cf. also SnE 1998, II, 430). The word is also found among the heiti for ‘sea’ (Þul Sjóvar 2/6) but occurs in poetry only as a term for ‘sword’. Mss A and B (and the LaufE mss) have (normalised) vægileiptr m. lit. ‘wavy-lightning’ (a hap. leg.). The latter reading is adopted in Skj B, whereas Skald has vægir, leiptr ‘wavy one, lightning’ (see NN §3253).

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