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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Hsv 110VII/5 — þótt ‘even if’

Aumr maðr        telr sér einskis vant,
        ef sér atvinnu á,
en inn fégjarni sýtir,        þótt fullsælu hafi,
        ok þykkiz válaðr vera.

Aumr maðr telr sér einskis vant, ef á sér atvinnu, en inn fégjarni sýtir, þótt hafi fullsælu, ok þykkiz vera válaðr.

A poor man thinks he lacks nothing if he has means of subsistence for himself, but the avaricious person complains even if he has great wealth, and thinks he is poverty-stricken.

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[5] þótt: þótt hann 624

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