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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Fjarða 1III

[4] Vefsnir ‘Vefsnfjorden’: Located in Hålogaland, northern Norway, north of Tjøtta (see Þul Eyja 3/7). This fjord-name is derived from Vefsn, the name of a river, lit. ‘twisting one’, cf. vefa ‘weave’ (ÍO: Vefsnir).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  3. Internal references
  4. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Eyja heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 976.

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