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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Viðar 3III/3 — þyrnir ‘bramble’

Lind, lág ok linnr,         lyng, skíð, pera,
þǫll ok þyrnir,         þinurr, storð ok klungr,
mǫsurr ok grǫn tvenn         ok marhrísla,
ilstri, vínviðr,         jǫlstr, cípressus.

Lind, lág ok linnr, lyng, skíð, pera, þǫll ok þyrnir, þinurr, storð ok klungr, mǫsurr ok grǫn tvenn ok marhrísla, ilstri, vínviðr, jǫlstr, cípressus.

Linden, log and serpent, heather, firewood, pear-tree, fir and bramble, fir, sapling and wild briar, burl and two pines and mare-twig, willow, vine, willow, cípressus.

notes

[3, 4] þyrnir; klungr ‘bramble; wild briar’: Both words (m.) are terms for thorny bushes, and it is not certain which exact species of such bushes they denote (ModNorw. klunger can refer both to bramble and to wild briar).

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