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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Máni Lv 1II/4 — stóls ‘seat’

Byr gef brátt, inn ǫrvi,
Bjǫrgynjar til mǫrgum
— þess biðjum vér — þjóðum,
þungstóls konungr sólar.
Angrar oss, þats lengi
útnyrðingr heldr fyrðum
— vindrs til seinn at sundi
sunnrœnn — í dys Unnar.

Inn ǫrvi konungr þungstóls sólar, gef brátt mǫrgum þjóðum byr til Bjǫrgynjar; vér biðjum þess. Angrar oss, þats útnyrðingr heldr fyrðum lengi í Unnardys; sunnrœnn vindrs til seinn at sundi.

Generous king of the heavy seat of the sun [SKY/HEAVEN > = God], give quickly many people fair wind to Bergen; we ask for that. It grieves us that the north-western wind keeps men long in Hummerdus; the southern wind is too slow [in coming] across the sea.

readings

[4] ‑stóls: ‑stáls 327

notes

[4] þungstóls ‘of the heavy seat’: Þungstáls ‘of the heavy steel’ (so 327) violates the full rhyme and makes no sense in the present context.

kennings

grammar

case: gen.

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