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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Brúðv 19VII

[4] siða (m. gen. pl.) ‘faith’: Jón Helgason emended to sigða ‘sickles’ to get a full rhyme (aðalhending) with afbrigð. He presents it as part of a warrior-kenning, snyrtir sigða gunntjalds ‘polisher of the sickles of the awning of battle’ [SHIELD > SWORDS > WARRIOR] but the emendation is not necessary to make sense of the word in this context, although the rhyme provided makes his suggestion plausible.

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