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Note to Anon (LaufE) 1III

[4] línapaldr ‘linen-apple-tree [WOMAN]’: This kenning is untraditional, since the base-word, apaldr ‘apple-tree’, is m. rather than f. (see Note to Þul Viðar 2/5). The juxtaposition of the determinants in the two woman-kennings, lauka ‘of leeks’ (l. 1) and lín- ‘linen-’, is also striking, since both words occur together in runic magic formulas (see Heizmann 1992). See also Anon Vǫlsa 4/3-4I and Notes there.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Heizmann, Wilhelm. 1992. ‘Lein(en) und Lauch in der Inschrift von Fløksand und im Vǫlsa þáttr’. In Beck et al. 1992, 365-95.
  3. Internal references
  4. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Viðar heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 882.
  5. Wilhelm Heizmann (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Vǫlsa þáttr 4’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1095.

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