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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to RvHbreiðm Hl 21III

[3]: Metrically the line is anomalous. Rugman indicates that the rhyme-word in the cadence began with h- (alliterating with hann ‘he’), in which case hildi ‘battle’ would be the only possible candidate. That reading makes no sense, however, and Jón Helgason (Hl 1941) suggests mildi ‘generous’ (alliterating with maðr ‘man’ in position 4), but that still leaves an unmetrical line, unless the pron. hann ‘he’ is extrametrical (see st. 22/7) and a syllable is missing between maðr and mildi.

References

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  2. Hl 1941 = Jón Helgason and Anne Holtsmark, eds. 1941. Háttalykill enn forni. BA 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.

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