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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Hjþ Lv 7VIII (HjǪ 16)

[8] ef hugr dugir þér ‘if your courage serves you’: The collocation of hugr ‘courage’ with duga ‘serve, help, avail’ is a commonplace of heroic poetry; cf. Sigv Knútdr 3/4I, Am 52/10.

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  3. Matthew Townend (ed.) 2012, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Knútsdrápa 3’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 653.

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