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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Heildr 7VII

[1-2] ræsir regnbýs ‘king of the rain-dwelling’: This expression seems to be a conflation of two God-kennings in Has 28/5-6: ræsir regnhallar ‘king of the rain-hall’ and 59/3-4: ræsir rǫðuls býs ‘king of the sun’s dwelling’. In both kennings, as here, ræsir provides the final stress in the odd-numbered l., while the weather-element whose ‘house’ is heaven provides the hǫfuðstafr.

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Harmsól 28’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 97.

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