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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon (SnE) 12III/1 — leið ‘sea’

Erum á leið frá láði
liðnir Finnum skriðnu;
austr sék fjǫll af flausta
ferli geisla merluð.

Erum liðnir á leið frá láði skriðnu Finnum; af ferli flausta sék fjǫll austr merluð geisla.

We have set out to sea from the land traversed on ski by the Saami; from the path of ships [SEA] I see mountains in the east illuminated by a beam of light.

notes

[1] á leið ‘to sea’: Lit. ‘on the way’. According to Skm, this heiti denotes ‘sea’, but leið is otherwise attested only once in this sense (in SnSt Ht 34/3; see Fritzner: leið). Ferli flausta ‘the path of ships’ (ll. 3-4) is a kenning for ‘sea’, however, and it could be that Snorri nodded here.

grammar

Feminine: -ir in pl.

sing.N
A
G
D
leið
leið
leiðar
leið
unnr
unn
unnar
unn
brúðr
brúði
brúðar
brúð
pl.N
A
G
D
leiðir
leiðir
leiða
leiðum
unnir
unnir
unna
unnum
brúðir
brúðir
brúða
brúðum
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