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Note to Anon Bjark 4III

[7] dýrsveita Draupnis ‘Draupnir’s <mythical ring’s> precious sweat [GOLD]’: Draupnir ‘Dripper’ was the name of a gold ring owned by the god Óðinn, which had the property that every ninth night there dripped from it eight equally heavy gold rings (SnE 2005, 47); cf. drógar Draupnis ‘of the drawing of Draupnir’ OBarr Frag 1/1.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  3. Internal references
  4. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ormr Barreyjarskáld, Fragments 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. 320.

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