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- Kormak said this:
- The land-getter, who binds the mast-top straight, honours
- the provider of the deities’ fiord [the mead of poetry, whose
- provider is the poet] with a head-band. Ygg [Odin] won
- Rind by spells.
- - Prose Edda, Skaldskaparmal
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- Note: In the original Old Norse, this poem that's being quoted (Sigurðardrápa) makes reference to seiðr. The translator just used a more general term. Here's an excerpt from the original Old Norse version of the poem, from the upload on skaldic.org, along with the site's own translation.
- Eykr með ennidúki
- jarðhljótr día fjarðar
- breyti, hún sás beinan
- bindr; seið Yggr til Rindar.
- ‘The land-recipient [RULER], who secures the straight mast, honours the arranger of the fjord of the gods [POETRY > POET] with a headband; Yggr <= Óðinn> obtained Rindr <giantess> through sorcery.’
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