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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Elds 3III

[1] freki (m.) ‘greedy one’: This weak m. noun is never used as a term for ‘fire’. Since Freki is primarely known as the name of Óðinn’s wolf (see Þul Vargs 1/5) the word could be interpreted as a half-kenning here (cf. hrótgandr ‘roof-wolf’, st. 1/7 above). See also Þul Skipa 3/1.

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Vargs heiti 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. 903.
  3. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Skipa heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 865.

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