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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Bjarni Frag 3III/1 — braut ‘clove’

Holmneglða braut hilmir
hauðrgjǫrð fyrir bǫrðum.

Hilmir braut holmneglða hauðrgjǫrð fyrir bǫrðum.

The ruler clove the island-studded land-girdle [SEA] before the prows.

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[1] braut ‘clove’: The verb extends the metaphor expressed by the base-word of the sea-kenning (‘girdle’). Cf. ESk Frag 13, which employs the same metaphor: Sverrigjǫrð svalra landa springr sundr fyr bǫrðum ‘The swirling girdle of cool lands [SEA] splits asunder before the bows’.

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