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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to ÚlfrU Húsdr 1III

[3, 4] vilk kveðja hann at gjǫf Grímnis ‘I want to summon him to the gift of Grímnir <= Óðinn>’: This is a special formula for an invitation to listen to the poem which occurs in several opening stanzas, e.g. in Steinn Frag 1/2 (for other examples see Note there).

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Steinn Herdísarson, Fragment 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 388.

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