Edáð Banddr 4I/3 — aðra ‘other’
Mærr vann miklu fleiri
malmhríð jǫfurr síðan
— áðr frôgum þat — aðra,
Eirekr und sik geira.
þás garð-Váli gerði
Gotlands vala strandir
Virfils vítt of herjat.
Veðrmildr ok semr hildi.
Mærr jǫfurr vann síðan miklu fleiri aðra malmhríð, — frôgum þat áðr — Eirekr und sik geira … þás Virfils vala garð-Váli gerði strandir Gotlands of herjat vítt. Veðrmildr ok semr hildi …
The renowned leader then fought many more other metal-storms [BATTLES], — we [I] learned that earlier — Eiríkr under himself of spears … when the Váli <god> of the enclosure of the horses of Virfill <sea-king> [(lit. ‘enclosure-Váli of the horses of Virfill’) SHIPS > SHIELD > WARRIOR] had the coasts of Gotland raided far and wide. Storm-generous and contrives warfare …
notes
[2, 3] aðra malmhríð ‘other metal-storms [BATTLES]’: Lit. ‘another metal-storm’ (sg.). Mss 53 and 61 give clear pl. forms of the noun but not of aðrar. Jón Þorkelsson (1884, 60) argued that the form fleiri ‘more’ was scarcely possible as a sg. and proposed an original pl. *malmhríðr aðrar, with hríð declined as a consonantal stem, parallel to vík (nom. and acc. pl. víkr).
kennings
- miklu fleiri aðra malmhríð, — — many more other metal-storms, [BATTLES]
grammar
Strong form: Annarr
Annarr is always strong.
| masc. | fem. | neut. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sing. | N A G D | annarr annan annars ǫðrum | ǫnnur aðra annarrar annarri | annat annat annars ǫðru |
| pl. | N A G D | aðrir aðra annarra ǫðrum | aðrar aðrar annarra ǫðrum | ǫnnur ǫnnur annarra ǫðrum |