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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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GunnLeif Merl II 26VIII/9 — hreiðrask ‘will nest’

‘En fogl ept þat         ferr vestr í dal,
þanns Gálábes         gumnar kalla.
Hann mun hefjask         í it hæsta fjall,
ok þar uppi         í eikr limum
hreiðrask hegri;         hann es fogla verstr.

‘En fogl ferr vestr í dal ept þat, þanns gumnar kalla Gálábes. Hann mun hefjask í it hæsta fjall, ok hegri hreiðrask þar uppi í limum eikr; hann es verstr fogla.

‘But after that the bird will go westwards into the valley that people call Galabes. It [the valley] will raise itself into the highest mountain and up there the heron will nest on the branches of an oak; it is the worst of birds.

readings

[9] hreiðrask: ‘treiðr[…]’ Hb

notes

[9] hreiðrask ‘will nest’: Emended in Skj B (followed by Skald and Merl 2012) from ms. ‘treiðr[...]’ (partially refreshed); cf. hreiðri ‘nest’ in II 27/2. Bret 1848-9 takes the ms. reading to be ‘treiðr’ and explains as a form of treðr ‘treads’, the 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. of treðja ‘tread’.

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