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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Sjólfr Lv 1VIII (Ǫrv 34)

[All]: Sjólfr calls Oddr by his name, after having learnt it for the first time. The stanza takes the form of a standard challenge to Oddr’s manliness and his willingness to participate in fights, while asserting the speaker’s own prowess and experience, in this case in battles that King Herrauðr led against the Wends and in which, by implication, Sjólfr participated but Oddr did not.

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