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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Rloð Lv 10VIII (Ragn 27)

[4-5]: There is no syntactic break between ll. 4 and 5 in the present interpretation of this stanza (it is unusual, but not unknown, for the syntax of a skaldic stanza to run on from one half-stanza to the next; cf. Turville-Petre 1976, xx, lx, lxvi). Some eds (see below) have adopted various arguments or emendations in order to bring about a syntactic break at the end of l. 4, and construe ll. 4-5 to refer to the snakes (ormar) of l. 6, but none of these have been persuasive.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Turville-Petre, Gabriel. 1976. Scaldic Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon.

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