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Note to Anon Mhkv 11III

[1] stæla ‘be fitted’: Lit. ‘steel, hammer steel into’. A technical term in smithing, referring to strengthening weapons with inlays. For its rhetorical counterpart, see SnSt Ht (SnE 2007, 121, 146, 150: hjástæltr ‘abutted’; stál ‘inlaid (parenthetical) statement’; stæltr ‘inlaid, intercalated’). This is the first attestation of the word in poetry.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. SnE 2007 = Snorri Sturluson. 2007. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  3. Internal references
  4. Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1094. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1376> (accessed 18 April 2024)

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