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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Refr Giz 2III

[2] es ‘has’: Lit. ‘is’. A monosyllabic finite verb (here es ‘is’) does not usually carry alliteration and full stress, but Kock (NN §2070D) has collected a few examples in which such verbs can do so in line-initial position (see also Gade 1995a, 122-3).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. Gade, Kari Ellen. 1995a. The Structure of Old Norse dróttkvætt Poetry. Islandica 49. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

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