Note to Busla Busl 3^VIII (Bós 3)

[All]: In stanzas three to six, three different areas are named in which the curse exerts its power: Nature will fall into chaos, the king’s body will be battered and contact with the outside world will be cut off, as travelling in ships and horseback riding will be rendered impossible. These four stanzas are bound together through refrain-like repetition in the four final lines of each, in which both prisoners are named in reverse order. All four are longer than the normal eight lines of a fornyrðislag stanza, st. 3 having ten lines and sts 4-6 having twelve.

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