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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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HSt Frag 6III/3 — sól ‘the sun’

Hart (fló hvast of snertu)
hregg magnaðisk, bragna
(bókar sól) þars búkar,
benvargs, hnigu margir.

Hart hregg benvargs magnaðisk, þars margir búkar bragna hnigu; sól bókar fló hvast of snertu.

The strong storm of the wound-wolf [SWORD > BATTLE] increased, where many bodies of men sank down; the sun of the book [COLOUR (steinn ‘stone’)] flew sharply in battle.

notes

[3] sól bókar ‘the sun of the book [COLOUR (steinn ‘stone’)]’: This is an ofljóst construction, based on the homonymy of ON steinn, which can mean both ‘stain, colour’ and ‘stone’.

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