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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ÁKet Sverr 1III/4 — trega ‘grief’

Sigrgœðir vas síðan
seimǫrr í Þrándheimi
(þjóð veit þínar íðir)
þann orms trega (sannar).

Seimǫrr sigrgœðir vas síðan í Þrándheimi þann trega orms; þjóð veit sannar íðir þínar.

The gold-generous victory-increaser [WARRIOR] was then in Trøndelag that grief of the snake [WINTER]; people know your true deeds.

readings

[4] trega: ‘treg[…]’ W

notes

[4] trega orms ‘grief of the snake [WINTER]’: For kennings of this type, in which ‘winter’ is paraphrased as ‘harm, grief, terror, destroyer of snakes’, see Meissner 109.

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grammar

case: acc.

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