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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Kálf Kátr 12VII/8 — þeingils ‘of the king’

‘Einráðið hefi eg, að orðum þínum
ekki trúi eg nie mínir rekkar’;
þannig mælti hvítra hjalta
hristir reiðr við fljóðið kristið.
Fimm tigu valdi fróðra hölda
fannar lófa spekt að prófa
eigandi við ambátt fræga
eingla dýrðarþeingils.

‘Eg hefi einráðið, að ekki trúi eg nie mínir rekkar orðum þínum’; þannig mælti reiðr hristir hvítra hjalta við kristið fljóðið. Eigandi fannar lófa valdi fimm tigu fróðra hölda að prófa spekt við fræga ambátt þeingils … dýrðar eingla.

‘I have resolved that neither I nor my men will believe your words’; thus spoke the angry shaker of shining hilts [WARRIOR] to the Christian woman. The owner of the snowdrift of the palm [SILVER > MAN] chose fifty wise men to compete in wisdom with the famous handmaid of the king of the glory of angels [= God (= Christ) > HOLY WOMAN].

readings

[8] dýrðar þeingils: ‘dyrd[...]ls’ 713, ‘dyrð [...] lds’ 399a‑bˣ, ‘dyrð [...]’ 920ˣ

notes

[8] þeingils dýrðar eingla ‘of the king of the glory of angels’: This is the emendation suggested by Finnur Jónsson (Skj B); Kock (Skald) has þengils háleits dýrðar ‘of the king of sublime glory’. There is at least one word missing in l. 8, and the kenning suggested here (‘of the king of the glory of angels’) may have had either an adj. or an additional noun element.

kennings

grammar

case: gen.

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