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A new Danish translation with the text in Old Norse and a Latin translation came out in 1777–83 (by order of Frederick VI as crown prince). An English translation by Samuel Laing was finally published in 1844, with a second edition in 1889. Starting in the 1960s English-language revisions of Laing appeared, as well as fresh English ...
many a host is harried. – Hollander's translation: On a good day will that king be born who gets such a heart. His lifetime will forever be reckoned as good. Unfettered will on the abode of men the Fenriswolf go, before an equally good on the uninhabited pasture king might come. Cattle die, kinsmen die, land and sea are destroyed. Since ...
Thomas Percy was the first to translate the poem into English. In moving and forceful language, the poem deals with the joys of the life of a warrior, the hope that his death will be followed by a gory revenge, and the knowledge that he will soon know the pleasures of Valhalla .
Old English and Old Norse were related languages. It is therefore not surprising that many words in Old Norse look familiar to English speakers; e.g., armr (arm), fótr (foot), land (land), fullr (full), hanga (to hang), standa (to stand). This is because both English and Old Norse stem from a Proto-Germanic mother language.
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"Rig in Great-grandfather's Cottage" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Rígsþula or Rígsmál (Old Norse: 'The Lay of Ríg') [1] is an Eddic poem, preserved in the manuscript (AM 242 fol, the Codex Wormianus), in which a Norse god named Ríg or Rígr, described as "old and wise, mighty and strong", fathers the social classes of mankind.