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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sáðs 1III

[5] kné (n.) ‘knee’: See also efstakné ‘uppermost member’ (l. 3 above). As a name for ‘grain’, kné is otherwise unattested, but the sequence blað, kné ok rót ‘blade, knee and root’ suggests that kné here is a term for a part of a plant. On the possible relation to knefill ‘post, pole’, see Dronke (1969, 133).

References

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  2. Dronke, Ursula, ed. and trans. 1969. The Poetic Edda. I: Heroic Poems. Oxford: Clarendon.

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