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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Gamlkan Has 13VII/1 — fyr ‘before’

Létk í ljós fyr gautum
láðs nǫkkurar dáðir
laxa fróns, en leyndak
lǫskum þôtt, sem máttak,
seggja kind at sýndisk,
(setrs) þokka mun betri,
(vísi hár) an værak
(vel kunnum því, sunnu).

Létk nǫkkurar dáðir í ljós fyr gautum fróns laxa láðs, en leyndak lǫskum þôtt sem máttak, at sýndisk seggja kind þokka mun betri an værak; vel kunnum því, hár vísi setrs sunnu.

I allowed certain deeds to come to light before the men of the land of the land of the salmon [SEA > GOLD > MEN], but I concealed my weaknesses as best I could, so that I should appear to the race of men [MANKIND] a great deal better than I was; we were [I was] well pleased with that, high king of the seat of the sun [SKY/HEAVEN > = God].

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