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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to RvHbreiðm Hl 75III

[5]: The line recalls Þham Magndr 3/1II dunði broddr á brynju ‘the arrow-point resounded against the byrnie’, which commemorates Magnús berfœttr ‘Barelegs’ Óláfsson’s famous battle against two Norman earls in the Menai Strait (1098). The present poet must have known Þorkell’s stanza, and the borrowing is clearly intentional.

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Þorkell hamarskáld, Magnússdrápa 3’ 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. 411-12.

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