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"Austrfaravísur" ("Verses On The Eastern Journey")
"Austrfaravísur" ("Verses On The Eastern Journey")
21. Fast skalt, ríkr, við ríkan 21. You should hold fast, mighty king,
Rǫgnvald, konungr, halda, the treaty with mighty Rognvald –
hann es þýðr at þinni he is promised to your Presider of Things = ruler
þǫrf nôtt ok dag, sôttum; need night and day.
þann veitk, þinga kennir, I know you, presider of Things,
þik baztan vin miklu to have him as by far your best friend
á austrvega eiga In the Eastway,
alt með grœnu salti. All along the green sea.
Old Norse text edited by R. D. Translation of verses 1-17 by R. I. Page,
Fulk, from Skaldic Poetry of Chronicles of the Vikings, (Toronto:
the Scandinavian Middle Ages. University of Toronto Press, 1995), pp.
http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/d 48-54.
b.php? Translation of verses 18-20 by Erling
if=default&table=poems&id=3 Monsen, Heimskingla, (Cambridge:
51 Heffer, 1932), pp. 302-303, with my
emendations in brackets.
Translations of verse 21is my own, with
corrections by Peter Tunstall.