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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ǪrvOdd Ævdr 31VIII (Ǫrv 101)/3 — vanir ‘accustomed’

Höfðu jarls liðar         útnes hroðit,
rógþings vanir         sem refar hundum.
Unnum vit Hjálmarr,         er hinig fórum,
eldi ok usla         eytt langskipum.

Liðar jarls, vanir rógþings sem refar hundum, höfðu hroðit útnes. Vit Hjálmarr unnum eytt langskipum eldi ok usla, er fórum hinig.

The jarl’s troops accustomed to the strife-assembly [BATTLE] like foxes to dogs, had cleared the outlying headland. Hjálmarr and I destroyed the longships with fire and embers when we got there.

readings

[3] vanir: vinir 471

notes

[3] vanir rógþings ‘accustomed to the strife-assembly [BATTLE]’: The battle-kenning rógþing ‘strife-assembly’ is not well formed, because the determinant róg- is synonymous with the referent ‘battle’. Similarly, in the previous stanza (Ǫrv 100/4), the ruler-kenning dróttinn lýða ‘the lord of men’ suffers from the same fault, suggesting that knowledge of how to build kennings was waning at the time when these stanzas were achieving the forms in which they have been recorded.

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