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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Brúðv 21VII

[3] álmþollr ‘elm-tree’: Jón Helgason thought this reading must be corrupted. He suggested elddraugr as a possible original reading, which gives a full rhyme with augum ‘eyes’. The kenning would have been elddraugr unda ‘the tree of the fire of the wounds’ [(lit. ‘fire-tree of wounds’) SWORD > WARRIOR].

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