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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Sigoa Lv 1VIII (Ragn 19)/5 — eigi ‘not’

(Þat) skal þriggja nátta
(ef þik tregar, móðir)
— leið eigu vér langa —
leiðangr búinn verða.
Skal Uppsölum eigi,
þó at ófafé bjóði,
ef oss duga eggjar,
Eysteinn konungr ráða.

Leiðangr skal verða búinn þriggja nátta, ef þat tregar þik, móðir; eigu vér langa leið. Eysteinn konungr skal eigi ráða Uppsölum, þó at bjóði ófafé, ef eggjar duga oss.

An expedition will be prepared within three nights, if that is what is causing you grief, mother; we have a long way to go. King Eysteinn will not rule Uppsala, though he may offer excessive payment, if sword-blades serve us well.

readings

[5] Skal Uppsölum eigi: so 147, Hb, skal eigi Uppsölum 1824b

notes

[5]: The word order of 147 and Hb, adopted by all eds apart from Rafn (FSN) and Valdimar Ásmundarson (Ragn 1891), is preferred here to that of 1824b as being metrically superior in allowing the vowel alliteration to fall on a fully stressed penultimate syllable in the line.

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