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Note to Angantýr Lv 6VIII (Heiðr 37)

[6] málmi Gota ‘the metal of the Goths’: Málmr can be used to denote ‘sword’ in particular (LP) and is used as a heiti for ‘sword’ in Þul Sverða 3/5III. It can also denote weapons or armour more generally, as would fit the context here. Hervǫr is of Gothic descent on her father’s side, and is hence equipped with her ancestral possessions.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. Internal references
  4. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 794.

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