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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Sigv Berv 11II

[2] þegna (m. acc. pl.) ‘of your subjects’: For the different meanings of the word þegn, see Goetting 2006. In this particular case, the word refers to Magnús’s free subjects, the farmers of Norway (but see st. 12/7 below).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Goetting, Lauren. 2006. ‘Þegn and drengr in the Viking Age’. SS 78, 375-404.

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