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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Íms Lv 1VIII (Gautr 5)/2 — um ‘caused’

Þat var spell,         er spörr um vann
        á akri Ímsiguls.
Axi var skatt,         ór var korn numit;
        þat mun æ Tötru ætt um trega.

Þat var spell, er spörr um vann á akri Ímsiguls. Axi var skatt, korn var ór numit; þat mun ætt Tötru æ um trega.

It was devastation that a sparrow caused on Ímsigull’s field. An ear of corn was destroyed, the grain was taken from it; that will grieve Tǫtra’s family for ever.

readings

[2] um: so 152, 590b‑cˣ, papp11ˣ, 164hˣ, of 567XIV γ, om. 194cˣ

notes

[2, 6] um vann; um trega ‘caused; grieve’: The later form (um) of the pleonastic particle of has been preferred in both these cases. On the normalisation of of to um in post-1250 texts, see Ásm 1/3, 5 and Note there.

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