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Note to Herv Lv 6VIII (Heiðr 21)

[3]: The phrase vinr drengja, translated as ‘the friend of warriors’, appears as a kenning for ‘ruler’ in SnSt Ht 14/2III, where it refers to King Hákon Hákonarson of Norway (r. 1217-63). It is not clear whether the phrase should be treated as a kenning here, where the implication is somewhat different, since ‘ruler’ would not be an appropriate referent for Hervǫr. On the meanings of drengr see Goetting (2006).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Goetting, Lauren. 2006. ‘Þegn and drengr in the Viking Age’. SS 78, 375-404.
  3. Internal references
  4. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 14’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1118.

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