Cookies on our website

We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used. You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on the cookies page.

Continue

skaldic

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Menu Search

ǪrvOdd Ævdr 57VIII (Ǫrv 127)/3 — Jórdán ‘the Jordan’

Veit ek, at fossum         falla lét
Jórdán um mik         fyr útan Grikki.
Helt þó sínum,         sem hverr vissi,
ítrgör skyrta         öllum kostum.

Ek veit, at Jórdán lét falla fossum um mik fyr útan Grikki. Þó helt ítrgör skyrta öllum kostum sínum, sem hverr vissi.

I know that the Jordan caused [water] to fall in torrents about me beyond the Greeks. Yet the splendidly made shirt retained all its special qualities, as everyone knows.

notes

[2] Jórdán ‘the Jordan’: The act of bathing in the River Jordan, ascribed here to the legendary Oddr, followed a well-established practice attributed to a number of Scandinavian rulers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, including Rǫgnvaldr Kali Kolsson, jarl of Orkney. For a list, see Rv Lv 27II, Note to [All].

grammar

Close

Log in

This service is only available to members of the relevant projects, and to purchasers of the skaldic volumes published by Brepols.
This service uses cookies. By logging in you agree to the use of cookies on your browser.

Close

Word in text

This view shows information about an instance of a word in a text.