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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Eil Þdr 6III

[8] þjóðáar (f. nom. pl.) ‘great rivers’: To achieve the required number of syllables, the uncontracted and more archaic form ‑áar is required here. This is compatible with assuming the contracted form hlaupár f. acc. pl. in l. 4; it appears that poets could choose contracted or full forms as the metre demanded.

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