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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Hjþ Lv 13VIII (HjǪ 37)/6 — vel ‘well’

Ungr var ek heima         ok öllu skipaði
skatna liði         at skapi mínu.
Gerði þat hugnaz         alt harla vel
fylki vísum         ok velbornum sveinum.

Ungr var ek heima ok skipaði öllu liði skatna at skapi mínu. Alt þat gerði hugnaz vísum fylki ok velbornum sveinum harla vel.

When young, I was at home and marshalled all the host of men according to my mind. All that pleased the wise leader and the well-born youths very well.

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[6] alt harla vel: so ÍBR5ˣ, fylkir vís with vís added above the line in scribal hand 109a IIIˣ, ‘fylkers’ corrected from ‘fylkers velbornum’ papp6ˣ

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