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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Hesta 1III

[6] Skævaðr: Lit. ‘racer’ (m.). In the mss, this heiti appears as ‘skæẏvðr’ (A) and ‘slevo᷎dr’ (B, represented by 744ˣ). The present emendation is in keeping with Anon Þorgþ I 2/2 (see Note there). In poetry, the word is a heiti for ‘horse’ in general.

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Þorgrímsþula I 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. 672.

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