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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Mhkv 5III

[8] frǫskr ‘a frog’: (O)Icel. froskr ‘frog’. The word is attested in poetry only here. On Orcadian-Norw. dialectal frǫskr, see LH II, 47-8; on braying frogs in medieval European literature, see Ransom (1986, 69-83). The rhyme of the noble rǫskr ‘brave’, adj. of champions, with homely frǫskr seems comic. On Lat. rana ‘frog’ named from the noise (cf. rancare) it makes in its native paludes ‘swamps’, see Isidore, Etym. 12.6.58.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LH = Finnur Jónsson. 1920-4. Den oldnorske og oldislandske litteraturs historie. 3 vols. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Gad.
  3. Ransom, Daniel J. 1986. ‘Rana loquax and the Frogs of Provençal Poetry’. In Groos 1986, 69-83.

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