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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Gestumbl Heiðr 29VIII (Heiðr 76)

[5] drallar eptir ‘trails after’: Dralla is a hap. leg. in poetry and the only occurrence in prose appears to be in the solution to this riddle in the H redaction. Cf. NO: 1 dralla. Kock emends eptir to hinstr ‘hindmost’, to alliterate with hundum ‘dogs’ in l. 4 (NN §2362).

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. NO = [Anonymous] 1966-. Norsk ordbok. Ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet. 9 vols (continuing). Oslo: Det norske samlaget.

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