Note to Mark Eirdr 4^II

[7] eyðir svikfolks ‘the destroyer of treacherous people [JUST RULER]’: Svikfolk, hap. leg., seems to refer specifically to the Wends, whose treacherous activities are referred to in sts 13-21, in particular, svikdómsmanna ‘of the treacherous men’ st. 13/3. See also the kenning rýrir Vinða ‘the vanquisher of the Wends’ (l. 1) and Note to st. 17/1. Because the Wends were pagan, they were appropriate candidates for opprobrium in Christian eyes, and someone like Eiríkr could be portrayed as especially righteous in opposing them. For the Wends and skaldic poetry, see also Morawiec 2006.

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