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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Hjþ Lv 2VIII (HjǪ 3)/2 — um ‘in’

Hver er sú dóttir,         er um nótt miðja
flanar ok flöktir         með fíls hala?
Ólík þykki mér þú         öðrum vífum,
eða hvaðan kom         Hrauðungs mær?

Hver er sú dóttir, er flanar ok flöktir um miðja nótt með hala fíls? Þú þykki mér ólík öðrum vífum, eða hvaðan kom mær Hrauðungs?

Who is that daughter who flits and flutters about in the middle of the night with an elephant’s tail? You seem to me unlike other women, and where did the girl of Hrauðungr <giant> [GIANTESS] come from?

readings

[2] um nótt miðja: so ÍBR5ˣ, um nóttu 109a IIIˣ, drjugt um nætr corrected from um nótt in another hand papp6ˣ

notes

[2] um miðja nótt ‘in the middle of the night’: The corrected reading of papp6ˣ, drjúgt um nætr ‘greatly during the nights’, which has been adopted by earlier eds from HjǪ 1720 onwards, restores the missing alliteration of this line on <d>.

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