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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ǪrvOdd Ævdr 52VIII (Ǫrv 122)/8 — veg ‘way’

Sigldum síðan         suðr langt í haf,
áðr ek grunnsævi         grimmu mættak,
svá at einn saman         en öllu firðr
gumna sinni         gekk ek annan veg.

Sigldum síðan langt suðr í haf, áðr ek mættak grimmu grunnsævi, svá at ek gekk annan veg einn saman en firðr öllu sinni gumna.

We sailed then a long way south in the ocean before I came upon treacherous shallows, so that I went another way alone and deprived of all company of men.

readings

[8] gekk ek annan veg: gekk helvegu 343a, 471, 173ˣ

notes

[8]: The younger mss have gekk helvegu ‘went along the roads to Hel’, i.e. they died. Cf. Vsp 52/7 (NK 12) troða halir helveg ‘men tread the road to Hel’. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B and LP: helvegr) emends to helvega (acc. pl.), but emendation is not required, as vegr may sometimes have the inflexions of u-stem nouns in nom. and acc. pl. (ANG §358.4).

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