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Note to Bjbp Jóms 3I

[2, 4] dorgar vangs eldreið ‘the chariot of the fire of the plain of the fishing-line [(lit. ‘fire-chariot of the plain of the fishing-line’) SEA > GOLD > WOMAN]’: Eldreið ‘fire-chariot’ is also found in KormǪ Lv 48/3V (Korm 69), in a structurally similar woman-kenning; see O’Donoghue (1991, 139-40).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. O’Donoghue, Heather. 1991. The Genesis of a Saga Narrative: Verse and Prose in Kormaks saga. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon.
  3. Internal references
  4. Edith Marold (ed.) 2022, ‘Kormáks saga 69 (Kormákr Ǫgmundarson, Lausavísur 48)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1151.

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