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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Orma 1III

[6] óri (m.) ‘raver’: Most likely related to the adj. œrr ‘mad, furious’, the weak verb óra ‘be quarrelsome’ and órar f. pl. ‘fits of madness’. The word does not otherwise occur as a heiti for ‘serpent’, but it is a dwarf-name (see Note to Þul Dverga 4/2).

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  2. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 699.

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