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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þjóð Har 5I

[3] l...: A possible restoration would be lyrg (m. nom. sg. lyrgr), a rare word meaning ‘forelock’. Though not entirely convincing, this seems the least implausible of the various possibilities permitted by metre, alliteration, semantics and context. Bugge (1871a, 519) supplies ‘wave’. In prose, denotes ‘the line of shoal water along the shore’ (CVC: ), but in verse it takes on the meaning ‘wave’. It is nowhere else used to refer to hair.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
  3. Bugge, Sophus. 1871a. ‘Et vers af Torbjørn Hornklove om Harald Haarfagre’. HT(N) 1, 518-19.

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