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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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EirRagn Lv 3VIII (Ragn 13)/5 — mest ‘in the greatest’

Bera skuluð orð it efra,
— nú eru órir firar lagðir —
at mær hafi mína
mjó, Áslaugu, bauga.
Þá mun mest af móði,
er mik spyrja dauðan,
mín stjúpmóðir mildum
mögum sínum til segja.

Nú eru firar órir lagðir; skuluð bera orð Áslaugu it efra, at mjó mær hafi bauga mína. Þá mun stjúpmóðir mín segja mildum mögum sínum til, mest af móði, er mik spyrja dauðan.

Now our men are laid low; you are to bring word to Áslaug by land that a slender maiden may have my rings. Then, when they hear that I am dead, my stepmother will tell her generous sons about it, in the greatest grief.

notes

[5] mest af móði ‘in the greatest grief’: Mest ‘in the greatest degree’ is here adverbial: ‘in grief (af móði; cf. Akv 9, NK 241) in the greatest degree’.

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