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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (Heiðr) 7VIII (Heiðr 88)

[5] hringreifðum ‘ring-adorned’: Hap. leg. Possibly refers to a chain-mail cheek and neck guard such as found on the seventh-century helmet Valsgärde 6 (for description see Arwidsson 1934) or, probably, on the tenth-century helmet from Gjermundbu, Norway (Grieg 1947, 3-4), the only Viking-Age helmet so far found in Scandinavia.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Arwidsson, Greta. 1934. ‘A New Scandinavian Form of Helmet from the Vendel Time’. Acta Archaeologica 5, 243-57.
  3. Grieg, Sigurd. 1947. Gjermundbufunnet. En hövdingegrav fra 900-årene fra Ringerike. Norske Oldfunn 8. Oslo: Universitets Oldsaksamling.

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