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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to HSt Rst 18I

[5-6]: Unusually and awkwardly, the subject and object of the subordinate þars-clause precede both þars ‘where’ (cf. Gade 1995a, 177) and the main clause mǫrg drótt hné ‘many a troop fell’ (cf. Kuhn 1983, 190), but there is no obvious alternative.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Gade, Kari Ellen. 1995a. The Structure of Old Norse dróttkvætt Poetry. Islandica 49. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  3. Kuhn, Hans (1899). 1983. Das Dróttkvætt. Heidelberg: Winter.

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