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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Skjaldar 2III/6 — borði ‘boarded one’

Gjallr, dǫggskafi         ok gimskýlir,
bǫðljós, grýta         ok bǫðskýlir,
Svalinn ok randi,         saurnir, borði,
skuttingr, barði,         skírr, tvíbyrðingr.

Gjallr, dǫggskafi ok gimskýlir, bǫðljós, grýta ok bǫðskýlir, Svalinn ok randi, saurnir, borði, skuttingr, barði, skírr, tvíbyrðingr.

Clamouring one, dew-scraper and jewel-shelterer, war-light, pot and war-shelterer, Svalinn and edged one, soiled one, boarded one, protector, bordered one, clear one, double-boarded one.

readings

[6] borði: ‘[…]rde’ B, ‘borde’ 744ˣ

notes

[6] borði (m.) ‘boarded one’: A poetic term for ‘shield’ from borð n. ‘board, plank’, hence ‘one made of boards’ (cf. OE bord ‘plank’ and ‘shield’; see Falk 1914b, 131 n. 3; SnE 1998, II, 248).

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