Tindr Hákdr 7I/8 — hríð ‘the storm’
Saddi jarl, þars odda
ofþing saman gingu,
(vann Hanga vals hungri)
hrafna (byrgis nafni).
Morðskýja* varð mávi
Mistar gótt til vista
heiðins dóms at háða
hríð við markar síðu.
Jarl saddi hrafna, þars ofþing odda gingu saman; nafni byrgis vann hungri vals Hanga. Varð gótt til vista mávi Mistar við síðu markar heiðins dóms at háða hríð morðskýja*.
The jarl sated the ravens, where the mighty assemblies of barbs [BATTLES] came together; the namesake of the protector [= Hákon] overcame the hunger of the falcon of Hangi <= Óðinn> [RAVEN]. It became good for provisions for the seagull of Mist <valkyrie> [RAVEN/EAGLE] by the coast of the forest of heathendom [NORWAY] after the storm of killing-clouds [SHIELDS > BATTLE] [was] waged.
readings
[8] hríð: ǫld 510
notes
[5, 7, 8] at háða hríð morðskýja* ‘after the storm of killing-clouds [SHIELDS > BATTLE] [was] waged’: Háða is f. acc. sg. p. p. from heyja ‘to perform, hold, wage’, hence lit. ‘after the waged battle’. For the construction of at + acc., cf. LP: 1. at B. — [8] hríð ‘the storm’: This emendation of ms. ǫld is indicated by both metre and sense, and is generally accepted. Kock (NN §434) suggests taking hríð as the ókend heiti for ‘battle’, combining Mistar morðskýja ‘of the Mist <valkyrie> of killing-clouds’ in ll. 5, 6 to give sköldrustad valkyria ‘shield-equipped valkyrie’, and taking this as a determinant for mávi ‘seagull’, but this analysis is counter to skaldic usage, despite the further putative examples given in NN §2987H.
kennings
- hríð morðskýja*. — the storm of killing-clouds [BATTLE]
grammar
case: acc.