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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to ǪrvOdd Lv 29VIII (Ǫrv 65)

[8] hrægjóðar ‘carrion-ospreys’: A hap. leg. cpd and one not recorded in LP. Most compounds in hræ- form kennings and one would expect the second element of this cpd to refer to some other kind of bird than a bird of prey. Doubtless because hræ ‘corpse’ cannot here have a determinative function, Meissner 120 does not include the cpd hrægjóðr among kennings for raven/eagle, though gjóðr ‘osprey’ occurs as a base-word in several kennings of this type.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
  3. 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.

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