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Note to Anon (FoGT) 33III

[1-4]: Not only does the first helmingr illustrate a change from sg. subject to pl. verb, as described in the previous Note; it also provides an instance of obscure language, in this case a woman-kenning öl-Gefn ‘the ale-Gefn’ (l. 1) combined with a metaphorical equation between a woman who has lost her virginity and a vineyard that bears fruit. This is the krókr ‘obscurity’ (cf. LP: krókr 3) referred to in l. 3, and this kind of language is deplored in the second helmingr as ósiðr orða ‘a bad habit of words’ (l. 5).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.

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