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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ǪrvOdd Ævdr 43VIII (Ǫrv 113)/8 — hroðit ‘succeeded in clearing’

Sóti ok Hálfdan         í Svíaskerjum
mörgum manni         at morði varð.
Unnum þeira,         áðr þaðan færim,
hundrað skipa         hroðit með stöfnum.

Sóti ok Hálfdan varð mörgum manni at morði í Svíaskerjum. Unnum hroðit hundrað skipa þeira með stöfnum, áðr færim þaðan.

Sóti and Hálfdan caused the death of many a man in the skerries of the Swedes. We succeeded in clearing a hundred of their ships from stem to stern, before we departed from there.

notes

[8] unnum hroðit ‘we succeeded in clearing’: The verb vinna ‘work, do’ in the sense ‘succeed in’ with the p. p. of the verb hrjóða ‘strip, disable, clear a ship’. Here hroðit is n. sg. in agreement with hundrað; Skj B and Skald emend to hroðin n. pl.

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