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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Kolb Lv 7III/3 — of ‘about’

Myndi mér fyr stundu
mikit orðalag þikkja
of elgrenni unnar
eyrum slíkt at heyra.

Myndi þikkja mér fyr stundu mikit orðalag at heyra eyrum slíkt of unnar elgrenni.

It would have seemed to me a while ago a significant expression if I had heard with my own ears such a thing about the impeller of the elk of the wave [(lit. ‘wave’s elk-impeller’) SHIP > SEAFARER].

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[3] of (‘um’): so W, ef A

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