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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Mhkv 13III

[2] Sǫrli: Unidentified hero (not the brother of Hamðir, cf. Bragi Rdr 5/5). Christiansen (1931, 413-16) suggests Seurlus, son of the king of Bergen in a Gaelic ballad, whose heart and ribs broke when he swam out to sea after his mermaid-lover.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Christiansen, Reidar Thoralf. 1931. The Vikings and the Viking Wars in Irish and Gaelic Tradition. Oslo: Dybwad.
  3. Internal references
  4. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 35.

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