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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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FriðÞ Lv 33VIII (Frið 41)/4 — sótt ‘illness’

FriðÞ Lv 33VIII (Frið 41)

Mun ek þær gjafir         þiggja eigi,
nema frægr hafi         fjörsótt tekit.

Ek mun eigi þiggja þær gjafir, nema frægr hafi tekit fjörsótt.

I will not accept those gifts, unless you, famous one, have contracted a life-threatening illness.

readings

[4] fjörsótt tekit: so Holm10 VI, 568ˣ, 27ˣ, fjörsótt with tekit added in right margin in scribal hand 510, fjörsóttar hafir papp17ˣ, fjörsótt hafir 1006ˣ, 173ˣ

notes

[4] fjörsótt ‘a life-threatening illness’: A hap. leg. but the meaning of the cpd is perfectly clear. In the prose text following this stanza, the king indicates that he is indeed ill and he dies shortly afterwards.

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