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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Innsteinn Innkv 11VIII (Hálf 31)/1 — Hrindum ‘May we succeed’

Hrindum heilir         hallar bjóri;
nú taka súlur         í sundr þoka.
Æ mun uppi,         meðan öld lifir,
Hálfsrekka för         til hertoga.

Hrindum heilir bjóri hallar; súlur taka nú þoka í sundr. För Hálfsrekka til hertoga mun æ uppi, meðan öld lifir.

May we succeed in pushing [out] the gable wall of the hall; now the pillars begin to move asunder. The journey of Hálfr’s champions to the army-commander will always be remembered, as long as mankind lives.

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[1] hrindum heilir ‘may we succeed in pushing’: Lit. ‘May we fortunate push’. The verb hrinda ‘push, thrust’ takes the dat. of what is pushed, here bjóri hallar ‘the gable wall of the hall’ (l. 2). Cf. Hálf 34/5 for a similar use of heilir plus verb.

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