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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Sólar 1III/1 — sunna ‘sunlight’

Sól ok sunna,         sýn, fagrahvél,
leiptr, hrjóðr, leika,         líknskin, rǫðull,
leiptr, ifrǫðull         ok ljósfari,
drífandi, alfrǫðull         ok Dvalins leika.

Sól ok sunna, sýn, fagrahvél, leiptr, hrjóðr, leika, líknskin, rǫðull, leiptr, ifrǫðull ok ljósfari, drífandi, alfrǫðull ok leika Dvalins.

Sun and sunlight, sight, fair-wheel, lightning, coverer, plaything, grace-shine, disc, lightning, doubt-disc and light-bringer, driving one, elf-disc and Dvalinn’s <dwarf’s> plaything.

readings

[1] Sól ok sunna: Sunna sýni A, ‘[…]vnna sy[…]’ B, ‘Sunna sýni744ˣ

notes

[1] sól ok sunna ‘sun and sunlight’: In A and B, the initial position in the list is occupied by a poetic term for ‘sun’, sunna f., while in R, and C the first heiti mentioned is sól f., a common word for ‘sun’ in Old Norse. In Alv one belongs to the language of the gods, the other to the language of men (Alv 16/1-2 (NK 126)): Sól heitir með mǫnnom, | enn sunna með goðom ‘It is called sól among men, but sunna among the gods’.

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