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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Glúmr Gráf 15I/1 — ôsu ‘gods’

Vígôsu tekr vísa
valfall Haralds alla.

Valfall Haralds tekr alla vígôsu vísa.

Haraldr’s death in battle affects all the battle-gods [WARRIORS] of the leader.

readings

[1] ‑ôsu: ‘sso’ Þb106ˣ

notes

[1] vígôsu ‘the battle-gods [WARRIORS]’: (a) The emendation, proposed by Kock (NN §254), makes an interpretation of the couplet possible. The dat. pl. vígôsum in Hskv Útdr 1/3II has been interpreted as ‘battle-gods’ (NN §§964; LP: vígôss) but in that context ôsum is more likely to be from áss ‘beam, plank’, hence ‘protective planking’ (see Note to Útdr 1/3II). (b) Other eds, following Jón Sigurðsson (Ldn 1843), emend to vígeisu ‘battle-fire’, though this does not make sense in the lines as preserved. Finnur Jónsson (LH I, 526) comments on Glúmr’s preference for the word eisa ‘fire’; the parallel compounds rógeisu ‘strife-fire’ (st. 2/5), dolgeisu ‘battle-fire’ (st. 3/1) were presumably the models for Jón’s emendation.

kennings

grammar

case: acc.
number: pl.

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