(1270) Svipdagsmál I: Grógaldr (Old Norse)
Svipdagsmál I: Grógaldr The poem is found only in manuscript antedating the seventeeth century, Sonr kvað: 1. “Vaki þú, Gróa, vaki þú, góð kona,vek ek þik dauðra dura, ef þú þat mant,at þú þinn mög bæðir til kumbldysjar koma.” Gróa kvað: 2. “Hvat er nú annt mínum eingasyni,hverju ertu nú bölvi borinn,er þú þá móður […]
(1270) Svipdagsmál I: Grógaldr (English)
Svipdagsmál I: Grógaldr Svipdag spake:1 1. “Wake thee, Groa! | wake, mother good!At the doors of the dead I call thee;Thy son, bethink thee, | thou badst to seekThy help at the hill of death.” Groa spake: 2. “What evil vexes | mine only son,What baleful fate hast thou found,That thou callest thy mother, | […]
(1270) Rígsþula (Old Norse)
Rígsþula Wormanius Codex Svá segja menn í fornum sögum, at einnhverr af ásum, sá er Heimdallr hét, fór ferðar sinnar ok fram með sjóvarströndu nökkurri, kom at einum húsabæ ok nefndist Rígr. Eftir þeiri sögu er kvæði þetta: 1. Ár kváðu ganga grænar brautiröflgan ok aldinn ás kunnigan,ramman ok röskvan Ríg stíganda. 2. Gekk hann […]
(1270) Rígsþula (English)
Rígsþula Wormanius Codex They tell in old stories that one of the gods, whose name was Heimdall, went on his way along a certain seashore, and came to a dwelling, where he called himself Rig. According to these stories is the following poem: 1. Men say there went | by ways so greenOf old the […]