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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Vargeisa Lv 2VIII (HjǪ 6)

[6] klénan ‘nice’: ON klénn is a late loan from MLG klēn ‘beautiful, pure, fine’ (the first citation in ONP is c. 1350); cf. Anon Mv II 6/3VII and Note. It occurs quite commonly in rímur, applied particularly to women, but also to weapons and clothing (cf. Finnur Jónsson 1926-8, 212-13). In Hjálmþérsrímur III, 24/1 (Finnur Jónsson 1905-22, II, 22) Vargeisa asks the hero to give her a vænan koss ‘lovely kiss’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  3. ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
  4. Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1905-22. Rímnasafn: Samling af de ældste islandske rimer. 2 vols. SUGNL 35. Copenhagen: Møller.

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