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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Óldr 23I

[1-4]: Line 2 violates Craigie’s Law (on which, see Gade 1995a, 29-30), since dreif ‘scattering’, in á dreif ‘scattered’ is a long-stemmed noun in position 4 of a Type D4/E-line, which is not otherwise found until the C14th. Dreif could be a verb, ‘drove’, but no analysis of the helmingr accommodates that easily, and there may be corruption.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Gade, Kari Ellen. 1995a. The Structure of Old Norse dróttkvætt Poetry. Islandica 49. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

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