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Note to Þul Hafrs 1III

[6] bokkr (m.) ‘buck’: One of the few goat-heiti in this þula that occurs in a kenning (KormǪ Lv 59/4V (Korm 80)). However, the kenning for ‘eel’ invented by Kormákr, bokkar díkis ‘billy-goats of the ditch’, is non-traditional (Gurevich 1994, 147-8).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Gurevich, Elena A. 1994. ‘The System of Kennings’. Nordica Bergensia 3, 139-56.
  3. Internal references
  4. Edith Marold (ed.) 2022, ‘Kormáks saga 80 (Kormákr Ǫgmundarson, Lausavísur 59)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1172.

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