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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Vitn 11VII

[1] sæta ‘woman’: See Note to 6/2 above. Kahle (1898, 102) suggests that the word could have been used here in its original meaning ‘grass-widow’, but that is unlikely in view of the high frequency with which this term occurs in this poem and elsewhere.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.

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