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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Konunga 3III

[5] ylfingr (m.) ‘one of the Ylfingar’: The Ylfingar belonged to a legendary royal family (SnE 1998, I, 103), and the OE Wylfingas/Wilfingas in Beowulf were members of a Germanic tribe probably occupying a territory south of the Baltic (see Beowulf 2008, 473). In poetry the word is never used in the sg. form as a common noun.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Beowulf 2008 = Fulk, Robert D., Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, eds. 2008. Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg. 4th rev. edn of Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, ed. Fr. Klaeber. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press.
  3. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  4. Internal references
  5. Not published: do not cite ()

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