Prose Edda - Brodeur Trans.
Skáldskaparmál
Down ward the Fells of FullnessComber, (1) as here:
Fall on the Bear of Tackle:
Now forward Winterling stirreth,
The ship, on Glammi's sea-path.
The Comber fell headlong o'er me;Breaker, as Óttarr sang:
The Main called me home unto it:
I accepted not the Sea's bidding.
In burst the ship-sides thin;Wave, as Bragi sang:
Rushed the Breaker downward; flushed
Stood the wind, bane of the wood;
Men endured wild tempest then.
The Giver of the Wave's Coals,Sound, as Einarr sang:
Who cut Thor's slender tackle,
The Line of the Land of Sea-Mews,
Loved not to fight the wroth sea.
I sheared the Sound1. So Cl.-Vig. Literally, the word means ominous, foreboder.
From Hrund south-bound;
My hand was gold-wound
When the Giver I found.
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Fjord, as Einarr sang:
Next I see a serpentWetness, as Markús sang:
Carved well on the splendid ale-horn:
Let the Fjord-Fire's Dispenser
Learn how for that I pay him.
I'll not lampoon the Chatterer,LXI. "What are the names of fire? Even as is written here:
Lord of the fearful sword-blade,
Who squanders the Sun of Wetness:
Ill is he who spoileth verses.
Not seldom does the fire blazeGlow, as Valgardr sang:
Which Magnús sets: the stalwart
Ruler burns habitations:
Houses blow reek before him.
Fierce Glow, with red-hot embers,Bale, as here:
Swiftly from the soot flared;
Straight o'er the tottering dwellings
Stood up the dense smoke-columns.
Haki was burned on Bale,
Where the sea's broad wake weltered.
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Gledes, as Grani sang:
I think the Gledes diminished . . .Embers, as Atli sang:
Glammi's tracks; thus the king kindled.
With blood the axe is reddened,Here fire is called Gem also.
Embers wax, burn many houses,
Halls stand aglow; now rages
The Gem; good men are falling.
Vapor, as here:
Half-built, by the Nid's sideHot Ashes, as Arnárr sang:
Burn the All-Ruler's dwellings;
I think fire razed the hall's pride:
Vapor shot rime on the people.
The Isle-Danes' wrathful HarmerFlames, as Einarr sang:
With the Raumar spared not hard counsel:
Hot Ashes made them calmer;
The Heinir's threatening words hushed.
Flame soon was alight,
And swiftly took flight
All Hising's host:
The light they lost.
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Flare, as Valgardr sang:
'The sturdy king's bright Flare soaredLowe, as Haldórr sang:
Above the castle's bulwark;
The vikings burst in grimly:
Grief on the maid descended.
There did ye share their jewels,LXII. "These are time- names : Cycle, Days of Yore, Generation, Lang-Syne, Year, Season ,Winter, Summer, Spring, Autumn, Month, Week, Day, Night, Morning, Eve, Twilight, Early, Soon, Late, Betimes, Day before Yesterday, Yester Eve, Yesterday, To-morrow, Hour, Moment. These are more names of Night in Alsvinnsmál:
While o'er the host the Shield's Lowe,
The sword, shrieked fiercely: never
Wert thou spoiled of conquest.
Night 't is called among men,["It is autumn from the equinox till the time when the sun sets three hours and a half after noon; then winter endures till the equinox; then it is spring till the moving-days: (1) then
And among the gods, Mist-Time;
Hooded Hour the Holy Powers know it;
Sorrowless the giants,
And elves name it Sleep-Joy;
The dwarves call it Dream-Weaver.
1. In May.
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