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gripgrip
It is so silentitþað iser sosvo silenthljótt
but nonetheless crowdedbuten anyway, still, nonethelesssamt crowdedmannmergð
The guards circle around methe guardsverðirnir circlehringsóla aroundum memig
and never see me.andog seesjá memig neveraldrei
I am invisibleIég amer invisibleósýnileg
and I fight about in the voidandog (I) fightberst about, aroundum iní the voidtóminu
but wowbuten wowvá
There would be so many things that you could scold me for“it”thereþað would beværi sosvo many thingsmargt thatsem youþið couldgætuð scoldskammað memig forfyrir
I promise:Iég promiselofa;
not having studiedtoað havehafa notekki i.e. been a studentstudiedlært,
having beertoað havevera með beerbjór,
reading an Icelandic booktoað readlesa (an) Icelandicíslenska bookbók,
wanting to get out of heretoað wantvilja to gofara from herehéðan,
but not being able tobuten to be ablegeta itþað notekki,
because she is stuck supposedly in a dreambecauseþví shehún iser stuck, shut inföst iní supposedmeintum dreamdraumi
stuck between being asleep and awakestuck, shut inföst betweená milli sleepsvefns andog awakednessvöku
Yes! Which of the two is this, a dream or a nightmare?yesjá! which of the twohvort iser thisþetta (a) dreamdraumur oreða (a) nightmaremartröð?
when it is happening she makes no distinctionwhenþegar “on”iná “him”Referring to the masculine "draumur"ithonum standstendur makegerir shehún no, anyengan distinctiongreinarmun
taken prisoner but I don't caretaken prisoner, arrestedtekin föst buten Omitting a "mér" herestandsstendur oná the samesama
people from the past who persecute her wherever she goespeoplemanneskjur fromúr the pastfortíðinni whosem persecuteofsækja herhana (to) whereverhvert thatsem shehún goesfer
and now she is the greedy one,and og nownúna iser shehún the onesú greedygráðuga, always wants more and fears(the one who) wantsvill alwaysalltaf moremeira anden fearsóttast itþað
trying to grab something that isn't there.toað grab, seizegrípa in(to)í emptytómt