Original Old Norse: | Auden & Taylor: | Bellows: | Bray: |
Þat kann ek it fjórða ef mér fyrðar bera bönd at bóglimum svá ek gel at ek ganga má sprettr mér af fótum fjöturr en af höndum hapt |
I know a fourth: it will free me quickly If foes should bind me fast With strong chains, a chant that makes Fetters spring from the feet, Bonds burst from the hands. |
150. A fourth I know, | if men shall fasten Bonds on my bended legs; So great is the charm | that forth I may go, The fetters spring from my feet, Broken the bonds from my hands. |
148. A fourth I know: if men make fast in chains the joints of my limbs, when I sing that song which shall set me free, spring the fetters from hands and feet. |
Chisholm: | Hollander: | Terry: | Thorpe: |
I know a fourth, so that if bonds bind my limbs, I can get free. Fetters spring from my feet, and bonds from my hands. |
that fourth I know, if foemen have fettered me hand and foot: I chant a charm the chains to break, so the fetters fly off my feet, and off my hands the halter. |
I know a fourth: if I should find myself fettered hand and foot, I shout the spell that sets me free, bonds break from my feet, nothing holds my hands. |
151. For the forth I know, if men place bonds on my limbs, I so sing that I can walk; the fetter starts from my feet, and the manacle from my hands |
Wouldn't that be a cool spell to know? |
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Stanza 149
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