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Note to Snæbj Lv 1III

[1, 2] Grotta skerja ‘Grotti <hand-mill> of the skerries [SEA]’: This kenning undoubtedly means ‘sea’ in the broadest sense here; according to Tolley (1994-7, 70) it refers to a maelstrom. See Note to l. 1 below, and cf. the kenning eymylvir ‘island-grinder [MAELSTROM]’, ÞSjár Frag 4/4.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Tolley, Clive. 1994-7. ‘The Mill in Norse and Finnish Mythology’. SBVS 24, 63-82.
  3. Internal references
  4. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Þórðr Særeksson (Sjáreksson), Fragments 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 480.

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