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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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GunnLeif Merl II 62VIII/6 — þeygi ‘not’

Væri mart         mǫnnum kynna
ór folkstafs         fornu kvæði.
Ek mun þó         þeygi fleira
Þróttar þings         þollum segja.

Mart væri kynna mǫnnum ór fornu kvæði folkstafs. Ek mun þó þeygi segja þollum þings Þróttar fleira.

There would be many things to inform men [about] from the old poem of the people-stave [LEADER = Merlin]. I will however not say more to the fir-trees of the assembly of Þróttr <= Óðinn> [BATTLE > WARRIORS].

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[6] þeygi ‘not’: Emended in Skald to eigi, presumably to improve the alliteration, but unnecessarily, since in kviðuháttr þó (l. 3) can bear alliteration.

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