Vetr-veðr (Winter-weather)

So, here we are in "First Month", the equinox behind us and Easter about to be upon us, and I'm writing about .... winter, the season we never seemed to have in upstate New York this year.  This verse uses a number of mythological references, especially to the giants who are associated with the dark, cold times in Eddaic tales.

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Old Norse Verse	Word-by-Word Translation	Prose-Order Translation
Þagnaðu er þegnar Þorra flugar bruggi; festar vetrar fast-liga fagr kæfaðu gerði; hremddu á hrimþursar hringi-grundar brún-vita; jakar frystat Jǫkulls ýsna fyrir lý-skála	Grew silent when thegns of Thorri birds schemed; clutched at rime-thurses rings of the ground white-browed; chains of winter tightly fair choked fields; the ice-floes froze of Jokull haddock's over fish-hall.	Birds grew silent when Thorri's thegns schemed. Chains of winter tightly choked fair fields. White-browed rime-thurses clutched at ground-rings. Jokull's ice-floes froze over the haddock's fish-hall.

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Kennings Used

þegnar Þorra > Thanes of Thorri ("frozen snow") > WINTER

hrimþursar > Rime-giants > WINTER

hringi-grundar > ground-rings > SNAKES

Jǫkull > ("icicle, glacier") a Giant name > WINTER

lý-skála > fish hall > LAKE or SEA

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