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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Sverða 5III/7 — skyggðir ‘polished one’

Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr,         hausamølvir,
hræva-Gautr, herbrái         ok hold-Mímir,
bensœgr, brigðir,         Brimir, huglognir,
skyggðir, skreyfir,         skarðr, grindlogi.

Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr, hausamølvir, hræva-Gautr, herbrái ok hold-Mímir, bensœgr, brigðir, Brimir, huglognir, skyggðir, skreyfir, skarðr, grindlogi.

Quick one, head-sharpener, crusher of skulls, Gautr of corpses, war-shining one and flesh-Mímir, wound-strip, fickle one, Brimir, clinch-failer, polished one, heaper, notched one, gate-flame.

readings

[7] skyggðir: ‘skyggþær’ A

notes

[7] skyggðir (m.) ‘polished one’: From skyggðr ‘bright, polished’ (p. p. of the weak verb skyggja ‘polish’) and not attested elsewhere.

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