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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Angantýr Lv 6VIII (Heiðr 37)

[2] mönnum ‘humans’: The Old Norse masculine noun refers both to males specifically, perhaps here playing on the fact that Hervǫr is disguised as a man, and to humankind in general, implying there is something unnatural about her activities; cf. her response (referring to herself as mennskr maðr ‘human being’) in the following stanza.

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