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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to KrákÁsl Lv 4VIII (Ragn 6)

[3] hressvar nætr ‘… nights’: The form hressvar cannot be the f. acc. pl. of the adj. hress ‘cheerful, in high spirits’, because hress is not a wa-stem adj. Another difficulty with any form of the adj. hress qualifying nætr ‘nights’ is that hress seems to be used in Old Norse only of animate beings (cf. ONP: hress).

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  2. ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.

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