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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Refr Ferðv 3III

[2, 3, 4] slítr brjóst … ór munni hvítrar Ránar ‘tears its breast … out of the mouth of white Rán <sea-goddess>’: A metaphorical depiction of the ship as it re-emerges from the trough of a foaming wave, thus escaping from the jaws of the sea which threatens to swallow it. As in the previous stanza the sea appears as a cannibalistic monster. The description of Rán as hvítrar ‘white’ presumably refers to the white crests of waves.

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