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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to GunnLeif Merl I 95VIII

[8] hôttr ‘style’: The word, as used here, does not have its more usual meaning of metrical form or stanza-form (despite Sveinbjörn Rafnsson 1994, 737) but instead relates, as the context shows, to figurative language. Comparable in sense is hætti in 94/10.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Sveinbjörn Rafnsson. 1994. ‘Merlínússpá í sögulegu samhengi. Fáein drög til sögulegrar gagnrýni’. In Sverrir Tómasson 1994, II, 734-42.

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