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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Bragi Troll 1III

[1] kalla mik skald ‘they call me poet’: The verbal and conceptual structure of Bragi’s stanza mirrors the troll-woman’s. As with l. 1 of her stanza, the interpretation of Bragi’s l. 1 could be kalla mik skald ‘they call me poet’, as here, with the following list of kennings as complement of the object, or skǫld kalla mik ‘poets call me …’. The latter sense requires emendation of all mss’ skald to skǫld, as in Skj B.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.

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