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Note to Humli Lv 1VIII (Heiðr 100)

[5-6]: Alliteration is lacking. To restore, all eds emend vápn ‘weapons’ to hervápn ‘war-weapons’, on the basis of a reading in Holm papp. 120, a ms. which is not of independent value (but cf. herlið ‘war-troop’ in Heiðr 101/2). However, the line is still unmetrical unless at ‘to’ is deleted.

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 101 (Humli konungr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 473.

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