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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Hallv Knútdr 7III

[2, 3] moldreks orðbrjótr ‘the breaker of the speach of the soil-ruler [(lit. ‘speach-breaker of the soil-ruler’) GIANT > GOLD > GENEROUS MAN]’: For the myth relating how a giant’s wealth was measured in mouthfuls, see Note to Anon Bjark 5/8. Moldrekr ‘soil-ruler’ is an odd kenning for ‘giant’ (it could equally well denote a dwarf) and attested only here.

References

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  2. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Bjarkamál in fornu 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 502.

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