Busla Busl 7VIII (Bós 7)/9 — þá ‘then’
Sé þér í hvílu sem í hálmeldi
en í hásæti sem á hafbáru.
Þó skal þér seinna sýnu verra,
en, ef þú vilt við meyjar manns gaman hafa,
villiz þú þá vegarins; eða viltu þulu lengri?
Sé þér í hvílu sem í hálmeldi en í hásæti sem á hafbáru. Þó skal þér seinna sýnu verra, en, ef þú vilt hafa gaman manns við meyjar, villiz þú þá vegarins; eða viltu lengri þulu?
May it be for you in your bed as if [you were] in burning straw and on your high-seat like on a churning sea. Yet later may it be a great deal worse for you, and if you wish to have a man’s pleasure with girls, may you then lose your way: or do you desire a longer rigmarole?
readings
[9] þá: om. 577, 361ˣ, þá added above the line 510
notes
[9] villiz þú þá vegarins ‘you will then lose your way’: The additional line immediately after l. 9 in ms. 510 and several later mss clarifies what is meant by this ‘confusion’: ms. 510 has ok far í rassinn ‘and make your way into the arse’! This is the only place in Old Norse literature where heterosexual anal intercourse, which here is certainly portrayed as abnormal, is explicitly mentioned. In the context of níð, the sexual practices referred to more often allude to homosexual intercourse between men implicitly rather than explicitly (cf. below st. 8/6).