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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Á 2III/6 — auðskjalgauðskjálg

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

[6] auðskjalg: útskjálg C, ‘[…]’ B, ‘audskia . .’ 744ˣ

notes

[6] auðskjalg (f.): Or auðskjǫlg. This is possibly a mythical name (so Finnur Jónsson 1933-4, 264). The name may mean ‘one looking sideways at riches’ (from auðr ‘riches, wealth’ and f. nom. sg. of the adj. skjálgr ‘wry, oblique, squinting’), or it could be connected with the river Shallag in Scotland (CVC 780). Alternatively, auðskjálg may be interpreted as ‘easily bent one’ (if the first element is the adverbial prefix auð- ‘easily’). The cpd is not attested elsewhere.

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