Arnor Earl’s-Poet
“Awkward our choice
when Earls are eager
to fight – friendship
is far from easy.”
- This poem is attributed to Arnor Earl’s-Poet, an 11th-century skald. The verse was preserved in the Orkneyinga Saga, written c. 1200 by an anonymous Icelander. The translation used here was by Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards (Penguin Classics, 1981).
