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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Bjǫrn Lv 1VIII (Frið 9)/7 — skorð ‘prop’

Erat sem ekkja
á þik vili drekka,
björt baugvara
biði nær fara.
Sölt eru augu,
sitkak í laugu;
bálskorð arma,
bítr mér í hvarma.

Erat sem ekkja vili drekka á þik, björt baugvara biði fara nær. Augu eru sölt, sitkak í laugu; arma bálskorð, bítr mér í hvarma.

It it not as if a woman would want to drink to you, [or that] a bright ring-bearer [WOMAN] would ask [you] to come close. [My] eyes are salty, I am not sitting in a bath; prop of the fire of arms [(lit. ‘fire-prop of arms’) GOLD > WOMAN], my eye-lids are stinging.

readings

[7] bálskorð: ‘bilskorðs’ 510, ‘bilskord’ 568ˣ, ‘bil skortt’ 27ˣ, bil sterka papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ

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grammar

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