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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Gestumbl Heiðr 28VIII (Heiðr 75)

[All]: The solution is reminiscent of Judges XIV.8-14, where Samson eats from a honeycomb produced by a swarm of bees inside the skull of a lion, and later propounds the riddle de comedente exivit cibus et de forte est egressa dulcedo ‘Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness’. Life-from-death symbolism could be said to be present in this riddle, although there is no overt Christian context.

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