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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Sól 30VII/6 — vera ‘to be’

Synðir því valda,        at vér hryggvir förum
        ægisheimi ór;
engi óttaz,        nema ilt geri;
        gótt er vammalausum vera.

Synðir valda því, at vér förum hryggvir ór ægisheimi; engi óttaz, nema ilt geri; gótt er vera vammalausum.

Sins cause this, that sorrowful we journey out of the terrible world; no-one is afraid, unless he does wrong; it is good to be without stains.

readings

[6] vera: at vera 214ˣ

notes

[6] vammalausum vera ‘to be without stains’, lit. ‘[it is good] for the stainless ones to exist’: Cf. Sigrdr 22/3: vammalauss verir ‘be without stains’; Hsv 3/3: vammalauss lífa ‘to live without stains’, and more distantly, Hávm 68; Rom. XIII.4.

grammar

Irregular verbs: vera (to be)

indic.subj.
pres.pastpres.past
sing.


pl.
1
2
3
1
2
3
em
ert
er
erum
eruð
eru
var
vart
var
várum
váruð
váru

sér

sém
séð
væra
værir
væri
værim
værið
væri
imperative
past part.
ver, verið
verit
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