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EXTRACTS

from the ode of

KING REGNER LODBROG.

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“WE fought with swords^[1], when, in my early youth, I went towards the east to prepare a bloody prey for the ravenous wolves: ‘ample food for the yellow-footed eagle.’ The whole

↑ We fought with Swords. The Icelandic original hiuggum or huiggum, is a word of the same origin, as the Anglo-Saxon heawan. Germ. hauwen, houwen. Engl. to hew. From the same root comes also our Rustic word to hough. The passage therefore of the text might perhaps have been rendered more exactly: “We struck, or cut, or hacked and hewed with Swords.” Wormius has rendered it as in the text, Pugnavimus ensibus. But Bartholin seems to have come nearer the exact idea in Secuimus ensibus. Our Author, M. Mallet, renders it as Nous nous sommes battus à coups d’ Epees. T.

[1] We fought with Swords. The Icelandic original hiuggum or huiggum, is a word of the same origin, as the Anglo-Saxon heawan. Germ. hauwen, houwen. Engl. to hew. From the same root comes also our Rustic word to hough. The passage therefore of the text might perhaps have been rendered more exactly: “We struck, or cut, or hacked and hewed with Swords.” Wormius has rendered it as in the text, Pugnavimus ensibus. But Bartholin seems to have come nearer the exact idea in Secuimus ensibus. Our Author, M. Mallet, renders it as Nous nous sommes battus à coups d’ Epees. T.

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