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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Sól 46VII/2 — þá ‘then’

Vánarstjarna fló        — þá var ek fæddr —
        burt frá brjósti mér;
hátt at hon fló;        hvergi hon settiz,
        svát hon mætti hvílð hafa.

Vánarstjarna fló burt frá brjósti mér; þá var ek fæddr; hon fló hátt at; hon settiz hvergi, svát hon mætti hafa hvílð.

A star of hope flew away from my breast; then I was born; it flew on high; nowhere did it come down so that it might have rest.

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[2] þá var ek: var ek þá 10575ˣ

notes

[2] þá var ek fæddr ‘then I was born’: The sense seems to be that the narrator is now being born in spirit into the next life; he hopes, but cannot yet be certain, that he will find rest among the blessed. Skj B normalises to þás fœddr of vask to regularise the metre, while Skald emends fæddr to hræddr ‘afraid’.

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