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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (TGT) 38III

[All]: Donatus has an example of a military scene from Virgil (Fairclough 2000, 326-7; cf. Holtz 1981, 673): En agros et quam bello, Troiane, petisti, | Hesperiam metire iacens ‘See, Trojan, the fields and that Hesperia that you sought in war: lie there and measure them out!’. There is, however, insufficient similarity with our stanza to assert with any confidence that Óláfr composed it with the Latin example as a model.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Fairclough, H. Rushton, trans. 2000. Virgil: Aeneid VII-XII; Appendix Vergiliana. Rev. G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  3. Holtz, Louis, ed. 1981. Donat et la tradition de l’enseignement grammatical: Étude sur l’Ars Donari et sa diffusion (IVe-IXe siècle) et édition critique. Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique.

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