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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Á 1III

[5] freka (f.) ‘voracious one’: As a heiti for ‘river’ the word is not found in other sources. See also Freki m., lit. ‘greedy one’ (Þul Vargs 1/5 and Note there). Freki was one of Óðinn’s wolves in Old Norse myth (see Note to gera ‘greedy one’ in l. 1 above).

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  2. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Vargs heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 903.

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