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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Gát 2III/4 — skip ‘ship’

Enn sá ek fljúga         öðru sinni:
skorinn línskauta         ok skip Þráins,
járn ór afli,         útleidda sál,
konu kjötnefnda         fyr kvið neðan.

Enn sá ek fljúga öðru sinni: skorinn línskauta ok skip Þráins, járn ór afli, útleidda sál, kjötnefnda konu fyr neðan kvið.

Again I saw fly a second time: cut linen-square and Þráinn’s ship, iron from the forge, transcended soul, named flesh of a woman below the belly.

notes

[4] skip Þráins ‘Þráinn’s ship’: In Njáls saga (Nj ch. 82, ÍF 12, 200), Þráinn Sigfússon is given a ship by Hákon jarl Sigurðsson in Trondheim (ON Þrándheimr) as a reward for killing the outlaw Kolr. The ship has an ornamental mast-head in the form of a vulture and is called Gammr ‘Vulture’. Cf. Þul Fugla 1/1.

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