Old Norwegian · AI translation
Óláfs saga hins helga (the Legendary Saga)
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
32v.29b–33r.7
styrk. þa urðu sva
strength. Then such
tiðændi her at Olafr konongr let lif sitt i þessom
tidings came to pass here, that King Olaf lost his life in this
bardaga. Sva sægia menn at Biorn
battle. Men say that Bjorn
digri hio með sværði til
the Stout struck with a sword at
þores hunnz um dagenn. En þar sem a kom bæít
Thorir Hund during the day. But where it landed it bit
æigi hælldr en
no more than if
vænndi bærði um. En þorer oc þæir .xíj́. saman varo i vargsk inz stakcum
one beat with a switch. And Thorir and they, twelve together, were in wolfskin coats
þæim er finnar hafðu gort þæím með mikilli fiolkyngi.
which the Finns had made for them with great sorcery.
þa er Biorn
When Bjorn
sa at sværðet bæit æigi. þa kallaðe hann a konong- enn
saw that the sword did not bite, he called to the king
oc mællte. Æigi bita vopnen hundana
and said: The weapons do not bite the dogs.
. Bæri þer þa hun-dana
Then beat the dogs,
sagðe konongrenn. þa tok biorn ser klubbu mikla
said the king. Then Bjorn took a great club
Oc laust
and struck
Translator's note. Thorir's byname Hund means 'dog', so 'the dogs' (hundana) plays on it. The Finns (finnar) are the Sami.
The whole original: Menota's corpus at Clarino (open DG 8 OHleg).