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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Balti Sigdr 4II/3 — bǫðvar ‘in battle’

Alls engi verðr Inga
undir sólar grundu
bǫðvar hvatr né betri
brœðr landreki œðri.

Alls engi landreki, hvatr bǫðvar, verðr œðri né betri brœðr Inga undir grundu sólar.

No land-ruler at all, brave in battle, will become more distinguished or better than Ingi’s brother [= Sigurðr munnr] beneath the ground of the sun [SKY/HEAVEN].

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[3] hvatr bǫðvar ‘brave in battle’: As Fidjestøl (1982, 160) points out, this appears to be a deliberate pun on the name of the poet, Bǫðvarr, functioning as his signature, as it were. Sigvatr (Sigv) employs a similar technique in his encomium to Queen Ástríðr (Sigv Ást 1/4I) when he calls Óláfr Haraldsson sigrhvatastr ‘the most battle-brave’, and Fidjestøl suggests that Bǫðvarr knew Sigvatr’s poem and imitated it consciously.

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