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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Angantýr Lv 11VIII (Heiðr 46)

[3] fjör tólf manna ‘the life of twelve men’: The number twelve had a general significance since a duodecimal counting system was employed in medieval Scandinavia intermingled with a decimal system (Karker 1974), but this instance seems to refer specifically to the sons of Arngrímr.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Karker, Allan. 1974. ‘Talsystem’. KLNM 18, 115-18.

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