Thursday, January 21, 2021
Waiting to Die
Last lines of Sonatorrek, tr. Tom Shippey, Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings (London: Reaktion Books, 2018), p. 129, with note on p. 323:
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Still I shall gladly
with a good will
and not grieving
wait for death.37
Skalk þó glaðr
með góðan vilja
ok óhryggr
heljar bíða.
37 Jónsson, ed., Íslendinga sögur, vol. II, p. 267.
