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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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StarkSt Vík 17VIII (Gautr 25)/2 — sinni ‘time’

Lét þreksamr         þriðja sinni
Hildar leik         háðan verða,
áðr Upplönd         unnin yrði
ok Geirþjófr         um gefinn helju.

Þreksamr lét leik Hildar verða háðan þriðja sinni, áðr Upplönd yrði unnin ok Geirþjófr um gefinn helju.

The powerful one had the play of Hildr <valkyrie> [BATTLE] held for a third time before Opplandene could be won and Geirþjófr given over to death.

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[2] þriðja sinni ‘for a third time’: No other times are mentioned in either the prose or the poetry, suggesting that both may have been shortened. The prose introduction to this stanza also suggests the compiler may have been aware of the lack of information at his disposal to cover the content of this stanza.

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