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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Mhkv 26III

[5] skefr ‘is scraped’: See st. 8/7 above. The adage seems originally to have meant something like one man’s good luck is inadvertently another’s misfortune. The author of Grettis saga apparently took the proverb in a more aggressive sense: ‘an oak has what it strips from another [oak]’.

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