[3] at samtogi sverða ‘at the drawing together of swords [BATTLE]’: Exactly the same line is at OStór 11/3 and Egill Lv 41/7V (Eg 71); cf. de Vries (1964-7, II, 40 n. 68). The implication of samtog is ‘a mutually hostile drawing of swords’.
References
- Bibliography
- Vries, Jan de. 1964-7. Altnordische Literaturgeschichte. 2 vols. 2nd edn. Grundriss der germanischen Philologie 15-16. Berlin: de Gruyter.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2022, ‘Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar 71 (Egill Skallagrímsson, Lausavísur 41)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 291.
- Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Orms þáttr Stórólfssonar 11 (Ásbjǫrn, Ævikviða 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 614.