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32 The Icelandic Runic Poem<br />
14 MatJr er maims gaman<br />
ok moldar auki<br />
ok skipa skreytir<br />
homo mildingr.<br />
15 Logr er vellanda vatn<br />
ok vfSr ketill<br />
ok glommungr grund.<br />
lacus l<strong>of</strong>frungr.<br />
16 Yr er bendr bogi<br />
ok brotgjarnt jam<br />
ok fifu farbauti<br />
arcus ynglingr.<br />
14. MaSr er manns gaman. This phrase occurs also in Havam&l XLVII.,<br />
whence it is doubtless borrowed.<br />
skipa skreytir. Cf. Fornmanna sogur xi. 187. skautreina skreytir :<br />
exornator navium (Egilsson).<br />
16. vellanda vatn, 687 ; all other texts have vellandi vimr (i.e. vimur),<br />
" hervorquellende flut." Cf. the Norwegian poem (Wimmer).<br />
glommungr, name <strong>of</strong> a fish in the Jmlor, Snorra Edda, p. 286.<br />
16. Yr. The character found here is regularly used for Y in the<br />
Icelandic inscriptions, none <strong>of</strong> which are much earlier than 1300. Cf.<br />
Kalund, Aarb. f. n. 0. 1882, p. 98 ff.<br />
brotgjarnt jam = $r, a different word from $r,<br />
bow. Cf. dr <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Norwegian poem, kaldyr <strong>of</strong> Merlinusspa and kaldtir =ferrum fragile <strong>of</strong><br />
Haldorsen (Wimmer).
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