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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Ólhv Frag 3III/2 — gram ‘lord’

Hermenn gátum hinnig
hugstinnan gram vinna.

Gátum hugstinnan gram vinna hermenn hinnig.

We [I] have found out that the single-minded lord defeated warriors there.

notes

[All]: As Óláfr states, there is ambiguity here as to which of the two accusative participants is the object of vinna (an example of amphibolia); hence the couplet could be interpreted as Gátum hermenn vinna hugstinnan gram hinnig ‘We [I] have found out that the warriors defeated the single-minded lord there’. Kock (NN §2551) proposes an elaborate reinterpretation of the couplet based on emending gátum/getu to gátu (3rd pers. pl. pret. indic.), but in removing the ambiguity altogether it disregards Óláfr’s interpretation.

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