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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Mágj Lv 3VIII (Mág 3)

[6] ragr ‘a scoundrel’: It is difficult to convey the precise sense of the Old Norse adj. ragr, which connotes sexual perversion (so-called passive homosexuality in men), cowardice and moral turpitude (cf. Meulengracht Sørensen 1983).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Meulengracht Sørensen, Preben. 1983. The Unmanly Man: Concepts of Sexual Defamation in Early Northern Society. Trans. Joan Turville-Petre. VC 1. [Odense]: Odense University Press.

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