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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Sverða 6III/5 — liðnir ‘one belonging to an army’

Mímungr ok fellir         ok málvitnir,
taurarr, hrævarðr,         trani, vindþvari,
liðnir, Kvernbiti,         ljómi, herðir,
vitnir, yfrir,         veggjalestir.

Mímungr ok fellir ok málvitnir, taurarr, hrævarðr, trani, vindþvari, liðnir, Kvernbiti, ljómi, herðir, vitnir, yfrir, veggjalestir.

Mímungr and feller and ornamented wolf, taurar, corpse-wrapped one, crane, wind-borer, one belonging to an army, Kvernbiti, brightness, hardened one, wolf, overcomer, damager of walls.

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[5] liðnir (m.) ‘one belonging to an army’: A hap. leg. The word is probably related to lið n. ‘host, troop’, although, according to Falk (1914b, 54), the heiti may have been derived from liðr m. ‘joint of the body’, denoting a sword with a crooked hilt, which is not immediately transparent.

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