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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Skúli Svǫlðr 3III/2 — sárar ‘severe’

Mundit efst, þars undir
árflogni gafk sárar,
Hlǫkk í hundraðsflokki
hvítinga mik líta.

Hlǫkk hvítinga mundit líta mik efst í hundraðsflokki, þars gafk árflogni sárar undir.

The Hlǫkk <valkyrie> of drinking-horns [WOMAN] would not see me rearmost in a force of a hundred, where I offered severe wounds to the raven.

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[2] sárar: sára U

notes

[1-2] þars gafk árflogni sárar undir ‘where I offered severe wounds to the raven’: The sense here is that Skúli gave nourishment to the raven in the form of the blood and flesh of the men whom he wounded and killed at the battle.

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