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016 - Skaldskaparmal 53-60 · Prose Edda

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  Speaker 1: Skalds Caparmal, sections fifty three to sixty of the prose
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  Speaker 1: Edda by Snorri Sturlisen, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur eighteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight to nineteen seventy one. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain recording by expatriate in Bangor, Maine.
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  Speaker 1: The Poesy of Skulds section fifty three. How are the
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  Speaker 1: uninvolved terms of poesy made by calling each thing by
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  Speaker 1: its proper name? What are the simple terms for poesy?
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  Speaker 1: It is called poetry, glorifying, song, laud and praise. Broggy
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  Speaker 1: the old saying this. When he was traveling through a
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  Speaker 1: forest late at evening, a troll woman hailed him in verse,
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  Speaker 1: asking who passed? Trolls? Do call me Moon's blank of
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  Speaker 1: the giant storms, Sun's bale fellow in misery of the sibyl,
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  Speaker 1: warder of the circled ring earth wheel, devourer of the heaven?
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  Speaker 1: What is the troll? But that? He answered, Thus, Skalds,
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  Speaker 1: do call me v Dor's shape smith, gouter's gift finder,
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  Speaker 1: barred not faulty, eager's ale bearer songs, a arrayer skilled smith. Averse?
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  Speaker 1: What is the skald, but this and as Cormacher sang,
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  Speaker 1: I make more glorifying by far or Hakon's great son,
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  Speaker 1: I pay him the song atonement of the gods in
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  Speaker 1: his wain thor sitdeth. And as twarder Coolbinsen sang the
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  Speaker 1: shield maple let many swift ships and merchant craft in
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  Speaker 1: speedy war boats or the sea poor the skuld's ready
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  Speaker 1: song of laud waxed laud, as ulfer Uguson sang. Now
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  Speaker 1: the stream to the sea cometh, But first the laud,
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  Speaker 1: I sang forth of the messenger of sword rain. Thus
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  Speaker 1: I raise the praise of warriors. Here poesy is called praise.
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  Speaker 1: Also section fifty four. How are the gods named, They
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  Speaker 1: are called fetters. As iulfer the valiant skald sang Ireker
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  Speaker 1: draws the lands beneath him at the pleasure of the fetters,
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  Speaker 1: and fashions the spear battle and bonds, as till Dulpher
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  Speaker 1: of Finn sang, the skillful god deceiver to the bonds,
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  Speaker 1: proved a stern sharer of bones, the helmet hooded saw
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  Speaker 1: somewhat hindered seething powers. As I nar tinkling scale sang,
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  Speaker 1: I say the mighty powers magnify Hakkun's empire. Yulnar as
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  Speaker 1: i Vinder sang, we have fashioned the feast of Julnar
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  Speaker 1: the Prince's praise song strong as a stone bridge deities,
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  Speaker 1: as Cormacher sang. The giver of lands, who bindeth the
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  Speaker 1: sail to the top with gold lace, honors him who
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  Speaker 1: pours deities verse odin wrought charms on render Section fifty five.
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  Speaker 1: These names of the heavens are recorded, but we have
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  Speaker 1: not found all these terms and poems, and these Skaldic terms,
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  Speaker 1: even as others, are not meet for use in Skaldic writing. Methinks,
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  Speaker 1: unless one first finds such names in the works of
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  Speaker 1: Chief Skalds. Heaven leoneer hide torn near storm Memir, long
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  Speaker 1: lying light, Farer driving topmost sky, wide fathom, vet Memir
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  Speaker 1: lightning destroyer, wide blue. The solar planet is called sun
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  Speaker 1: Glory everglow albright sight, fair Wheel, healing ray, Dvaldein's playmate, Elfinbeam,
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  Speaker 1: doubtful beam, Luminary. The lunar planet is called Moon Waxer
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  Speaker 1: Waner year, teller Mock's Sun, Fengari, Glamour, Haster, crescent Glare
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  Speaker 1: Section fifty six, which are the simple terms for Earth.
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  Speaker 1: She is called earth as til daupher sang. The hardy
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  Speaker 1: point reigns urgure oft cause the harsh sword shower ere
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  Speaker 1: under him the broad earth with battle he subjected field
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  Speaker 1: as o tar sang. The prince guards the field. Few
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  Speaker 1: kings are so mighty o lifer fattens the eagle foremost
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  Speaker 1: as the swedes king ground as hulvarder sang. The broad
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  Speaker 1: ground neath the venom cold adder bound lies subject to
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  Speaker 1: the warrior of the island fetter's heaped gold, the hon
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  Speaker 1: Land's lord, the Horde dispenseth howder as Ainar sang. Brave
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  Speaker 1: heroes are defending the hard howder of famous princes with
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  Speaker 1: the sword off splits the helmet before the furious edge
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  Speaker 1: storm land as twarder kolbeinsen sang. The land after the
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  Speaker 1: battle was laid low from Vaga northward to ag Der
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  Speaker 1: south or farther. Hard is song in conflict fief as
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  Speaker 1: otar sang. Thou fierce war staff maintainest the thief despite
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  Speaker 1: too monarchs with hero's kin. Where the ravens starved, not
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  Speaker 1: keen hearted art thou haludin as vulushtein sang. I remember
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  Speaker 1: how murky earth yawned with graven mouth for the cender
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  Speaker 1: of the gold words of the giant of the hard
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  Speaker 1: bones of green ludin country, as ofer Ugusen sang. But
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  Speaker 1: the flashing eyed, stiff edge rope of the earth stared
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  Speaker 1: past the gunnale at the rowan tree of the country
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  Speaker 1: of Stone. The giant tester Furgin, as is said here,
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  Speaker 1: I was faithful to the free pale of the stream
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  Speaker 1: bed of Furgen's serpent may honor be closely guarded by
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  Speaker 1: the giver of the Giant's stream gold section fifty seven.
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  Speaker 1: It is correct to paraphrase blood or carrion in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the beast which is called strangler, by calling them
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  Speaker 1: his meat and drink. It is not correct to express
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  Speaker 1: them in terms of other beasts. The strangler is also
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  Speaker 1: called wolf, as Tiodolfer sang. Enough guesting to the ravener
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  Speaker 1: was given when the son of Sigurdur came from the north,
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  Speaker 1: the wolf to lure from the wood to the wound.
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  Speaker 1: Here he is called ravener, also greedy one, as Eegiel sang.
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  Speaker 1: The greedy one gashed grisly wounds when plashed the Red
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  Speaker 1: Point Creek on the raven's beak. Witch beast as Einar sang,
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  Speaker 1: the guta cold with venom with hot wound gush was reddened.
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  Speaker 1: The witch beast's warm drink mingled with the water in
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  Speaker 1: the sea poured. She wolf as Arnor sang. The she
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  Speaker 1: wolf's evil kindred swallowed. The corpse harms swollen when the
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  Speaker 1: green sea was turned to red with gore commingled. Strangler
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  Speaker 1: as Ilugi sang, there was happiness for the strangler. When
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  Speaker 1: my lord pursued hosts full many with the sword, the
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  Speaker 1: necklet minister pierced the swart snake of the forest. Thus
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  Speaker 1: sang Holler. He sated the heath beasts hunger. The hoar
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  Speaker 1: howler in wounds gladdened the king reddened the wild one's
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  Speaker 1: mouth hairs. The wolf went to drink of the wound,
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  Speaker 1: and again, as Trdur sang, in blood, Gelp's stud horse
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  Speaker 1: waited the dusty pack gut fullness of the greedy one's wheat.
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  Speaker 1: The howler enjoyed the ravener's gore drink. The bear is
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  Speaker 1: called wide stepper, cub, winterling, orse, gibcat, tusker, jungling roarer,
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  Speaker 1: Yulfudur wolful, sharp, she bear, horse, Chaser, Scratcher, hungry one, Blomir, Bustler.
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  Speaker 1: The heart is called Modrudnir, Dalar, Dollar, Dain, Dvalin, Dunir, Durrothror.
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  Speaker 1: These are the names of horses enumerated in the rhymes
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  Speaker 1: of Torgrimmer, Horofin and Sleipe. Near the famous horses Baler
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  Speaker 1: and let Fetti, tal Dari was there too, Goldtopur and Goti.
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  Speaker 1: I heard Soti told of more and Lunger with mar
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  Speaker 1: Fig and Stufur were with Skeevader, Blacker could well bear Fagan,
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  Speaker 1: silver Topper and Senr. I heard Fakhr spoken of, Golphoxy
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  Speaker 1: and Yore. With the gods were blow Dughofi, height O
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  Speaker 1: horse that they said beareth the strength eminent Atridi, Giesil
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  Speaker 1: and Falhofner, Glier and Skidbrimer mentioned too, was made of Guillier.
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  Speaker 1: These also are recorded in Kulsvisa Dagger, Rode, Drussel and
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  Speaker 1: Dvalin Rode Modner, Helmter, Haffetti, Hachi Road, Fokker, the slayer
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  Speaker 1: of Belly Rode, Blodughoffi and Skaevader was ridden by the
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  Speaker 1: ruler of Haddings Vestein Rode Valor and Vifiel road Stuffur,
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  Speaker 1: maintieufer rode More and morgen On fokker Ali rode Hoffen,
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  Speaker 1: they who rode on to the ice, but another southward
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  Speaker 1: under adiels A gray one wandered, wounded with the spear
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  Speaker 1: Bjorn Roade Blacker and Biar rode kerter atli rode Glaumer
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  Speaker 1: and adiels On Slungvi, hugni On, Houlver and haralder On, Fuchver,
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  Speaker 1: Gunnar rode Go and Sigudur Grannie Arvakr and Elsvider draw
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  Speaker 1: the sun as is written before whom Foxy or Furzvartnir
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  Speaker 1: draw the night skin. Foxy and Gladder are the day's horses.
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  Speaker 1: These names of oxen are in Torgrimmer's rhymes of all Oxen.
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  Speaker 1: The names have I accurately learned of these Rauder and heafhair,
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  Speaker 1: Rekin and heir, he mean Hruder and opli Arfur and Arfuni.
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  Speaker 1: These are the names of serpents Dragon Fafnir, mighty monster, Adder, Nidhuger, Lindworm,
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  Speaker 1: she Adder going mowing, Gruffvitnir, Grabacher Ofnir, Swaffner, hooded one
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  Speaker 1: neat cattle cow calf oxen, heifer, yearling, steer, bull, sheep,
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  Speaker 1: ram bach, yu, lamb weather, swine, sow, sheep, pig, boar,
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  Speaker 1: hog suckling. Section fifty eight. What are the names of
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  Speaker 1: the air and of the winds? Air is called yawning
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  Speaker 1: void in Middle World bird abode wind abode Wind is
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  Speaker 1: called storm, breeze, gale, tempest, gusts blowing. Thus does one
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  Speaker 1: read in alsvinsmal wind tis called among men folk in
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  Speaker 1: waverer with the godsnayer, the great powers name it shrieker,
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  Speaker 1: the giants and shouter elves call it in hell clamorer
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  Speaker 1: tis called the wind is also called blast. Section fifty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Two are those birds which there is no need to
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  Speaker 1: paraphrase otherwise than by calling blood and corpses their drink
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  Speaker 1: and meat. These are the raven and the eagle. All
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  Speaker 1: other male birds may be paraphrased in metaphors of blood
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  Speaker 1: or corpses, and then their names are turned of the
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  Speaker 1: eagle or the raven as tchodophor sang. The prince with
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  Speaker 1: eagles barley doth feed the bloody morphowl. The hoard king
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  Speaker 1: bears the sickle of odin to the gory swan's crop.
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  Speaker 1: The satyr of the vulture of the eagle's sea of corpses,
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  Speaker 1: stakes each shoal to the southward, which he wards with
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  Speaker 1: the spear point. These are the names of the raven
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  Speaker 1: crow Hougien Moonin, Bold of Mood, Yearly, Flier, year Teller,
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  Speaker 1: flesh Boder, Thus sang Einar, tinkling scale with flesh, the
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  Speaker 1: host convoker filled the feathered ravens. The raven when spears
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  Speaker 1: were screaming with the she wolf's prey was sated. Thus
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  Speaker 1: sang Einar's sculasen. He who gluts the gull of hatred
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  Speaker 1: or precious lord could govern the sword the hurtful raven
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  Speaker 1: of Hoogien's corpse load edith, and as he sang further,
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  Speaker 1: but the king's heart swelleth the spirit flushed with battle,
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  Speaker 1: where heroes shrink, dark Mooning drinks blood from out the wounds,
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  Speaker 1: as Viga Gloomer sang, when stood the shielded maidens of
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  Speaker 1: the gory sword strife eager on the isle, The Bold
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  Speaker 1: of Mood then received the meat of wound blood, as
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  Speaker 1: Scully Torsteinsen sang. Not the hindmost in the hundred might
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  Speaker 1: hook of horns have seen me? Where to the yearly flier,
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  Speaker 1: I fed the wounds full grievous. The urn is called eagle,
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  Speaker 1: old one, storm shearer, insider soarer wound shearer cock as
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  Speaker 1: Einar sang with blood the lips he redden of the
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  Speaker 1: black steed of yarnsaksa with steel Erne's meat was furnished.
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  Speaker 1: The eagle slit the wolf's bait as o tar sang.
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  Speaker 1: The ern swills corpse drink. The she wolf is sated.
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  Speaker 1: The eagle there feedeth off the wolf. His fang's reddens
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  Speaker 1: ischo d'orfor sang. The spoiler of the lady swiftly flew
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  Speaker 1: with tumult to meet the high god rulers long hence
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  Speaker 1: in old One's plumage. And as stands here with skill,
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  Speaker 1: will I rehearse of the storm shearer my verse and
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  Speaker 1: again as schoolie sang early and late with sobbing, I
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  Speaker 1: wake where well is sated the hawk of the cock's blood. Ocean,
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  Speaker 1: then the bard heareth good tidings. Section sixty. What are
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  Speaker 1: the names of the sea. It is called ocean, Maine,
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  Speaker 1: wintry lee, deep whey weir, salt lake, furtherer as arnor sang,
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  Speaker 1: and as we have written above. Let men hear how
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  Speaker 1: the Earl's king, hardy of mind, the sea sought the
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  Speaker 1: overwhelming ruler, failed not to resist the main. Here it
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  Speaker 1: is named and Maine. Also ocean as horn Clofi sang
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  Speaker 1: when the man scathing meter of the mansion of the
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  Speaker 1: rock reefs thrust the forecastle adder and the skiff out
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  Speaker 1: on the ocean. In the following verse, it is called
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  Speaker 1: lake as well. Thus sang einar. The lake doth bathe
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  Speaker 1: the vessel, where the sea gainst each side beatth, and
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  Speaker 1: the bright wind veins rattle, the surf washes the flood steeds.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is called flood. Also thus sang refer as
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  Speaker 1: was said before wintry one's wet cold spade wife whiles
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  Speaker 1: the bare of twisted cables oft into eager's wide jaws,
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  Speaker 1: where the angry billow breaketh deep. As hal Vader sang,
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  Speaker 1: the sword shaker bids be pointed the prow of the
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  Speaker 1: hardy ship steed westward in the girdle of all lands,
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  Speaker 1: the watery deep whey. As here on our course from
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  Speaker 1: land we glided on the way to the coast of Finland.
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  Speaker 1: I see from the ship's road eastward that fells with
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  Speaker 1: radiance gleaming weir as aegiel sang, I sailed o'er the
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  Speaker 1: weir to the west, I bare Odin's heart sea. So
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  Speaker 1: it stands with me ocean as Ainar sang many a day.
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  Speaker 1: The cold ocean washes the swarthy deck planks neath the
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  Speaker 1: gracious prince, and snowstorm furrows Mona's girdle sult as arnor
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  Speaker 1: sang the hardy king. The salt plowed from the east
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  Speaker 1: with hull ice laden brown tempest tossed the lessener of
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  Speaker 1: surf gold towards sigtun furtherer as bulverker sang thou didst
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  Speaker 1: summon from fair Norway a levee the next season with
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  Speaker 1: din serf ships. The furtherer did shear or decks the
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  Speaker 1: sea poured Here the sea is called din surf. Also
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  Speaker 1: wide one, as refer sang to its breast. The stay's
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  Speaker 1: steed taketh the home of planks, beak furrowed, and tosses
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  Speaker 1: the wide one over the hard side. The wood suffers
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  Speaker 1: dusky one as nyal of the burning sang we sixteen
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  Speaker 1: pumped my lady in four oar rooms, but the surge
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  Speaker 1: waxed the dusky one beat over the hull of the
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  Speaker 1: driven sea ship. These are other names for the sea,
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  Speaker 1: such as it is proper to use in paraphrasing ships
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  Speaker 1: or gold Ran. It is said with Eager's wife, even
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  Speaker 1: as is written here, to the sky shot up the
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  Speaker 1: deep's gleades with fearful might. The sea surged methinks our stems,
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  Speaker 1: the clouds cut Ron's rode to the moon soared upward.
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  Speaker 1: The daughters of Eagir and Ran are nine, and their
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  Speaker 1: names are recorded before Himingleva, Dufa blodug Hadda, hefring uder
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  Speaker 1: hrun Bugia, drufen Kulga Einar Skulisen recorded the names of
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  Speaker 1: six of them in this stanza, beginning Jimingleva sternly, stirreth
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  Speaker 1: and fiercely. The sea's wailing welling wave as vulgard sang
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  Speaker 1: foam rested in the sea's bed, swollen with wind. The
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  Speaker 1: deep played, and the welling waves were washing the awful
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  Speaker 1: heads of the warships. Billow as o tar, the swarthy
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  Speaker 1: sang Ye sheer with shaven rudder, Billow's moisty deep, the
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  Speaker 1: broad sheet which girls spun on the mast head with
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  Speaker 1: the roller's reindeer sported foam fleck, as Ormer sang, the
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  Speaker 1: hawklike heedful lady has every virtue loafen of the foam
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  Speaker 1: fleck's flame, gold, faithful as a friend, all false renounceth
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  Speaker 1: wave born as tor leiker, the fair sand, the sea whales,
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  Speaker 1: and the wave born bear's bright froth. O'er the red
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  Speaker 1: wood where gapes the ruler's brown ox with mouth gold ornamented.
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  Speaker 1: Shoal as Ininar sang, nor met the forward minded, where
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  Speaker 1: the fierce sea on our friends falls. I think the
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  Speaker 1: shoal be calm, not the ship wood of the waters
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  Speaker 1: downward the fells of fullness fall on the bare of tackle.
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  Speaker 1: Now forward winter ling stirreth the ship on Glommy's sea
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  Speaker 1: path comber as here the comber fell headlong o'er me
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  Speaker 1: the main call'd me home. Unto it, I accepted, not
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  Speaker 1: the sea's bidding. Breaker, as o Tar sang, in burst
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  Speaker 1: the ship sides thin rushed the breaker downward, flush stood
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  Speaker 1: the wind bane of the wood men endured wild tempests.
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  Speaker 1: Then Wave as Broggie sang, the giver of the wave's holes,
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  Speaker 1: who cut Thor's slender tackle the line of the land
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  Speaker 1: of sea meuse loved not to fight the wroth sea sound.
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  Speaker 1: As Ininar Sang, I sheared the sound from Hrun southbound.
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  Speaker 1: My hand was gold wound when the giver I found fjord,
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  Speaker 1: as Inar Sang. Next, I see a serpent carved well
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  Speaker 1: on the splendid alehorn. Let the fiord fire's dispenser learn
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  Speaker 1: how for that I pay him wetness. As Marcus Sang,
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  Speaker 1: I'll not lampoon the chatterer, lord of the fearful sword blade,
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  Speaker 1: who squanders the son of Wetness. Ill is he who
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  Speaker 1: spoileth verses end of section sixty. Recording by expatriate in Bangor, Maine,