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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Mey 59VII

[8] fræðagjörð ‘composition of poetry’: Lit. ‘the making of knowledge’, understood to be poetic knowledge. The cpd also occurs in a similar context (fræðagjörð með fögrum orðum ‘a composition of lore with fair words’) in st. 1/5 of the poem Gimsteinn ‘Jewel’ (ÍM I, 2, 305).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ÍM = Jón Helgason, ed. 1936-8. Íslenzk miðaldarkvæði: Islandske digte fra senmiddelalderen. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.

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