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ǪrvOdd Ævdr 67^VIII (Ǫrv 137)/6 — Antekju ‘Antioch’

Var mér skjaldmeyju         skipat it næsta,
þá er orrostu         eiga skyldum.
Veit ek, at ýtar         í Antekju
andrán biðu,         en vér auð fjár.

Var mér skipat it næsta skjaldmeyju, þá er skyldum eiga orrostu. Ek veit, at ýtar biðu andrán í Antekju, en vér auð fjár.

I was placed next to a shield maiden when we had to engage in battle. I know that men suffered life-robbery [DEATH] in Antioch, but we [got] great wealth.

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[6] Antekju: Aþekju 173ˣ

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[6] í Antekju ‘in Antioch’: A major city of the ancient Near East, situated in modern Turkey, Antioch was an important site of early Christianity. The spelling of the name in Old Norse sources is unstable. Both 343a and 471 record the form Antekja, but ms. 173ˣ has Aþekja. Skj B, Skald and FSGJ adopt Anþekja, which is not in any ms. of this stanza. The prose text of 344a, which does not have the stanza, records Antiochia[borg]. Another spelling is Anteócía, as in Anon Mey 34/1^VII.

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