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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Gísl Magnkv 10II/6 — hamalt ‘in a wedge-shaped array’

Ættlǫndum vann        eyja dróttar
folkvǫrðr und sik        fjórum þrungit,
áðr an hitti,        sás hamalt fylkði,
veðrsmiðr Viðurs        valska jarla.

Folkvǫrðr vann fjórum ættlǫndum dróttar eyja þrungit und sik, áðr an Viðurs veðrsmiðr, sás fylkði hamalt, hitti valska jarla.

The people’s guardian [RULER] subjugated four ancestral territories of the men of the isles, before the smith of Viðurr’s <= Óðinn’s> wind [(lit. ‘Viðurr’s wind-smith’) BATTLE > WARRIOR], who marshalled his troops in a wedge-shaped array, met the Norman earls.

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[6] sás fylkði hamalt ‘who marshalled his troops in a wedge-shaped array’: This was the so-called svínfylking ‘pig-array’ (Lat. porcinum caput; see Fritzner: svínfylking, Falk 1914, 151 and Jesch 2001a, 209). See also ÞjóðA Run 1/4 and Mark Eirdr 15/3.

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