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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Lil 70VII/7 — hier ‘there’

Enn mun koma í öðru sinni
allsvaldandi kóngr að gjalda
seggja ferðum sínar gerðir
sómaörr á efsta dómi.
Svá geisar þá eldr og eisa
jörð og fjöll, að í heimi öllum
eigi finz hier upp ór skýjum
óbrunnið og niðr að grunnum.

Enn mun allsvaldandi kóngr koma, sómaörr, í öðru sinni á efsta dómi að gjalda ferðum seggja gerðir sínar. Þá geisar eldr og eisa svá jörð og fjöll, að í öllum heimi finz eigi óbrunnið hier upp ór skýjum og niðr að grunnum.

Again the all-ruling king will come, generous with honour, a second time, at the Last Judgement, to repay crowds of men for their deeds. Then fire and flames will so rage over earth and mountains, that in all the world there is nothing unburned there up above the clouds and down on the ground.

readings

[7] hier: þá 99a, 622, 713, 705ˣ, 4892, om. Vb, 41 8°ˣ

notes

[7] hier ‘there’: The word commonly means ‘here’ or ‘hither’. Other mss have þá. If it is to have that meaning here, the syntax of the sentence must be finz eigi óbrunnið upp ór skýjum og hier niðr að grunnum ‘is found unburned up above the clouds and here below on the ground’. But when addressing someone from afar (e.g. in a letter), it can mean ‘there [where you are]’ (see Heggstad, Hødnebø and Simensen 1997: hér 4). The previous st. is addressed to Christ in heaven, and perhaps the image continues in this st. ‘neither up there [where you are] …’

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