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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Hbreiðm Lv 1II

[6] mestum ‘very great’: Most eds (all except Orkn 1887, 139-40) adopt the variant mestum. Although hæstum ‘very high, higher’ (so Flat) means virtually the same thing, it results in two alliterating staves in an even l.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Orkn 1887 = Gudbrand Vigfusson 1887-94, I.

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