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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Stríðk 1III/2 — prúða ‘Beautiful’

Þess sitk, þægra hnossa
Þrúðr, ávalt, in prúða,
hverjum leik á hráka
hnugginn Gleipnis tuggu,
at urðhœings jarðar
ýtendr fyr mér nýtir
greipar svells ins gjalla
Gefn stríðkera nefni.

In prúða Þrúðr þægra hnossa, sitk ávalt, hnugginn hverjum leik, á hráka Gleipnis tuggu þess, at nýtir ýtendr jarðar urðhœings nefni Gefn ins gjalla svells greipar stríðkera fyr mér.

Beautiful Þrúðr <goddess> of delightful ornaments [WOMAN], I live always, deprived of every pleasure, in the spittle of Gleipnir’s <magic fetter’s> mouthful [= Fenrir > = Ván (ván ‘hope’)] of this, that capable givers of the earth of the stone-heap salmon [SERPENT > GOLD > GENEROUS MEN] may name the Gefn <= Freyja> of the ringing ice of the hand [SILVER > WOMAN] a grief-prick [WIDOW] in my presence.

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[2] in prúða Þrúðr ‘beautiful Þrúðr <goddess>’: Lit. ‘the beautiful Þrúðr’.

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