[7] messu odda ‘a chant of sword-points [BATTLE]’: This kenning, with its connotations of divine service, is paralleled in RvHbreiðm Hl 25/6III, where the kenning hjǫrsalma ‘of sword-psalms [BATTLE]’ occurs, cf. de Vries (1938, 722 n. 78).
References
- Bibliography
- Vries, Jan de. 1938. Een skald onder de troubadours. Ledeburg, Gent: N. V. Drukkerij Erasmus.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1001. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1347> (accessed 2 May 2024)