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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (TGT) 11III

[1] gekk framm ‘went forward’: Óláfr states that here cacemphaton occurs because the verb ganga ‘walk’ is used for the action of a ship (TGT 1927, 55): Hér er kallat at skíð gangi, en þat er eiginligt mǫnnum eða kvikendum ‘Here it is said that the ski walks, but that is proper to people or living beings’. This might suggest that the verb-adv. collocation should be translated ‘walked forward’, but the expression ganga fram(m) can also mean simply ‘proceed, advance’.

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  2. TGT 1927 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1927b. Óláfr Þórðarson: Málhljóða- og málskrúðsrit. Grammatisk-retorisk afhandling. Det kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske meddelelser 13, 2. Copenhagen: Høst.

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