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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to RvHbreiðm Hl 4III

[1-4]: Hl 1941 suggests the following reading of ll. 1-4: [Dróttins man | dverga fj]arðar | vatni blœtt | yfir vísa [gein], i.e. man dróttins fjarðar dverga, blætt vatni, gein yfir vísa ‘the beloved of the lord of the dwarfs’ fjord [MEAD OF POETRY > = Óðinn > = Jǫrð (jǫrð ‘earth’)], bleeding water, yawned above the leader’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Hl 1941 = Jón Helgason and Anne Holtsmark, eds. 1941. Háttalykill enn forni. BA 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.

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