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Note to Ásgr Lv 1III

[All]: If the compiler understood -draugar ‘trees’ (lit. ‘(tree) trunks’) as the base-word referring to men (and this seems likely, as he offers draugr in the preceding prose as an example of this usage), the helmingr does illustrate the point. Heslis ‘of the hazel-tree’ could be misconstrued as such a base-word (and it is in LaufE), however, though it actually belongs to an (albeit unusual) arm-kenning (see Translation).

References

  1. Internal references
  2. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 7 May 2024)

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