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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ǪrvOdd Ævdr 26VIII (Ǫrv 96)/7 — frið ‘peace’

Fundum um síðir         fyrir í sundi
þegna nýta,         Þórð ok Hjálmar.
Fréttu fyrðar,         þeir er fyrir váru,
hvárt frið vildim         eða á för halda.

Fundum um síðir nýta þegna, Þórð ok Hjálmar, fyrir í sundi. Fyrðar fréttu, þeir er váru fyrir, hvárt vildim frið eða halda á för.

At length we found able men, Þórðr and Hjálmarr, before [us] in the sound. The men, who were there beforehand, asked whether we wanted peace or to continue our journey.

readings

[7] frið vildim: vér vildum frið 343a, vildum frið 471, 173ˣ

notes

[7] frið vildim ‘we wanted peace’: All mss have the 1st pers. pl. pret. indic. vildum here, but eds have normalised to the subj. form after the conj. hvárt ‘whether’. The word order has been changed here, as in Ǫrv 81/7, in order to avoid alliteration on <f> falling in metrical position 4 in a Type B/E line.

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