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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Á 2III/5 — bróbró

Þyn, Rín ok Nið,         Þǫll, rimr, ysja
Dún, ógn, Dýna,         dyn, hǫllfara,
órun ok bró,         auðskjalg, Lodda,
mun, merkriða,         mein ok Saxelfr.

Þyn, Rín ok Nið, Þǫll, rimr, ysja, Dún, ógn, Dýna, dyn, hǫllfara, órun ok bró, auðskjalg, Lodda, mun, merkriða, mein ok Saxelfr.

Þyn, Rhine and Nidelven, Þǫll, rimr, hastener, Danube, terror, Dvina, noise, sloping-goer, furious one and bró, auðskjálg, Lodda, one moving forward, boundary-crosser, harm and Elbe.

readings

[5] bró: ‘bra’ C, 744ˣ, ‘bra[…]’ B

notes

[5] bró: A hap. leg. According to CVC 780, this is the river Brora in Scotland, whereas Rygh (1904, 23) argues that Bró is Brua (from brú f. ‘bridge’), which he identifies as a small river flowing past the farm Brujordet in Skjåk, Oppland, Norway. The name is given as ‘bra’ in mss B and C, which could be related to the weak verb brá ‘glitter’ (see ÍO: Bró; Brá 3).

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