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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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KormǪ Sigdr 5III/1 — gerk ‘I compose’

Hróðr gerk of mǫg mæran
meirr Sigrøðar fleira;
haptsœnis galtk hônum
heið; sitr Þórr í reiðu.

Gerk meirr fleira hróðr of mæran mǫg Sigrøðar; galtk hônum heið haptsœnis; Þórr sitr í reiðu.

I compose even more praise about the famous son of Sigrøðr [= Hákon jarl]; I paid him the honour of the gods’ reconciliation [POEM]; Þórr <god> sits in his chariot.

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[1, 2] gerk meirr fleira hróðr ‘I compose even more praise’: This opening is a typical signal of the beginning of a new section of a poem (Finnur Jónsson 1931, 113; Fidjestøl 1982, 93; SnE 1998, I, 206; Clunies Ross 2005a, 85 n. 4).

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