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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Galtar 1III

[5] valbassi (m.) ‘slaughter-bear’: An otherwise unattested cpd. For the meaning of val-, see valglitnir ‘slaughter-glittering one’ (l. 1 above); for bassi m. ‘bear’, see Note to Þul Bjarnar l. 5.

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  2. Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Bjarnar heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 895. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3213> (accessed 12 May 2024)

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