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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon (SnE) 14III/1 — of ‘around’

Boði fell of mik brálla;
bauð heim með sér geimi;
þák eigi lǫð lœgis …

Boði fell brálla of mik; geimi bauð heim með sér; þák eigi lǫð lœgis …

A wave suddenly crashed around me; the sea invited [me] home; I did not accept the hospitality of the ocean …

readings

[1] of: so , B, á R, C, um A

notes

[1] of mik ‘around me’: So , B and A (the latter has the later form um rather than of). Mss R and C have the prep. á ‘on’, which is also possible (and adopted in SnE 1848-87 and SnE 1998).

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