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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Eil Þdr 3III

[5] granstrauma Grímnis ‘the lip-streams of Grímnir <= Óðinn> [POEM]’: This kenning for ‘poem’ refers to the myth of the mead of poetry, and in particular, to Óðinn, who spews the stolen mead into the waiting vats (SnE 1998, I, 5). With its two-part determinant, in which ‘lip-’ is a superfluous kenning component, it corresponds to the kenning type ‘liquid of the breast of Óðinn’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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