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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Vargs 2III

[3] borkn (f.) ‘boaster’: A hap. leg. Like the other heiti in this stanza, this is a term for ‘she-wolf’. The heiti could be related to the weak verb berkja ‘boast, bluster’ (cf. OE beorcan, ModEngl. bark; see Alexander Jóhannesson 1927, 74).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Alexander Jóhannesson. 1927. Die Suffixe im Isländischen. Sonderdruck aus Árbók Háskóla Íslands 1927. Halle (Saale): Niemeyer.

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