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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to HSt Rst 16I

[7] ýtiblǫkkum Ekkils ‘surging steeds of Ekkill <sea-king> [SHIPS]’: This line comprising a ship-kenning is carved on a rune-stick of c. 1300 from Bergen (Run B57VI). The base-word is in the dat. case (blǫkkum ‘steeds’) as in the poem, and the line may well derive from there.

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