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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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SkrautO Frag 2III/1 — bǫr ‘from the tree’

Bǫls munat bǫr at dylja
berg-Þórs nǫsum órum.

Munat at dylja bǫr bǫls berg-Þórs ... nǫsum órum.

It will not be possible to hide the misfortune of the rock-Þórr <god> [GIANT/DWARF] from the tree ... our nostrils.

notes

[1] bǫr ‘the tree’: Probably the base-word of a kenning for ‘man’ (see LP: bǫrr). Kock (NN §901) emends bǫr (m. acc./dat. sg.) to bǫrr (nom. sg.) to make this the subject, i.e. ‘the [man] will not deny …’, which is plausible given the W scribe’s tendency to omit final -r (especially in geminates). However, this is clearly not a free-standing couplet, and there is no need to presume that the subject is included in the cited portion. This edn interprets the acc. as the object of dylja ‘hide’.

grammar

case: acc.

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