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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon 732b 1III

[8] gjöraz færð í skaup mærðar ‘get mocked in verse’: Lit. ‘get brought into the mockery of panegyric’, a nice oxymoron. For the use of mærð as a broad term for skaldic verse, as well as praise in general and encomiastic poetry in particular, see Kreutzer (1977, 49-52).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Kreutzer, Gert. 1977. Die Dichtungslehre der Skalden: Poetologische Terminologie und Autorenkommentare als Grundlage einer Gattungspoetik. 2nd edn. Hochschulschriften: Literaturwissenschaft 1. Meisenheim am Glan: Hain.

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