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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Bragi Rdr 8III

[8] draugi ørlygis ‘the tree-trunk of battle [WARRIOR = Hǫgni]’: Bragi possibly plays ironically on the dual sense of draugr here, ‘tree-trunk’ and ‘ghost, revenant’, in that Hǫgni will soon have the latter status, along with all the other men in the Hildr legend.

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