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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þfagr Frag 1III

[3-4] þars hlunnvisundr gínn golli búnum munni ‘where the roller-bison [SHIP] gapes with its gold-adorned mouth’: This refers to the golden ornamental animal head affixed to the prow of a ship (see Falk 1912, 105-7 and Jesch 2001a, 127-8). For similar imagery of the ocean playing with such golden heads on a royal vessel, see Valg Har 10II, 11/1-4II.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Jesch, Judith. 2001a. Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse. Woodbridge: Boydell.
  3. Falk, Hjalmar. 1912. Altnordisches Seewesen. Wörter und Sachen 4. Heidelberg: Winter.
  4. Internal references
  5. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Valgarðr á Velli, Poem about Haraldr harðráði 10’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 308-9.

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