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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Gestumbl Heiðr 34VIII (Heiðr 81)/3 — at ‘to’

Meyjar ek sá         moldu líkar,
        váru þeim at beðjum björg,
svartar ok sámar         í sólviðri,
        en þess at fegri, er færra um sér.
Heiðrekr konungr,         hyggðu at gátu.

Ek sá meyjar líkar moldu, björg váru at þeim beðjum, svartar ok sámar í sólviðri, en þess at fegri, er færra um sér. Heiðrekr konungr, hyggðu at gátu.

I saw girls like dust, rocks were beds to them. [They are] black and swarthy in sunny weather, but the brighter, the less is seen of them. King Heiðrekr, think about the riddle.

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