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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sjóvar 3III

[All]: Of the sea-heiti listed in this stanza, gnat n. ‘din’, vika f. ‘sea-mile’ (l. 1), stormr m. ‘storm’ m. (l. 5), iða f. ‘eddy’ and kíll m. ‘creek’ (l. 8) never occur in skaldic poetry as terms for ‘sea’, but gnat appears once in the rímur in a kenning for ‘poetry’ (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: gnat).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.

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