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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Dœgra 1III/7 — óljós ‘dark one’

Dœgr, hlýrn ok røkr,         díes ok lýsing,
dagr, nótt, svefngaman         ok draum-Njǫrun,
nox, nis, gríma,         njól, myrkfara,
óljós, draum-Vǫr,         émispéríum.

Dœgr, hlýrn ok røkr, díes ok lýsing, dagr, nótt, svefngaman ok draum-Njǫrun, nox, nis, gríma, njól, myrkfara, óljós, draum-Vǫr, émispéríum.

Day and night, sky-light and twilight, dies and daybreak, day, night, dream-joy and dream-Njǫrun <goddess>, nox, nis, mask, darkness, dusk-farer, dark one, dream-Vǫr <goddess>, hemisphere.

readings

[7] óljós draum‑Vǫr: ‘ol[…]dr[…]vo᷎[…]’ B, ‘ólíos draumvo᷎r’ 744ˣ

notes

[7] óljós ‘dark one’: Lit. ‘unlight one’, the word is the substantivised f. adj. from óljóss. In Alv 30/4, the word is given as the term for ‘night’ among the giants, and it also occurs in LaufE and RE 1665 but it is not recorded elsewhere as a heiti for ‘night’.

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