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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to GunnLeif Merl II 28VIII

[9]: The kenning grenbúi ‘lair-dweller [FOX]’ is a hap. leg.; see Note to l. 8. The noun gren ‘lair’ was most commonly associated with foxes and the expression sem melrakka í greni ‘like a fox in its lair’ occurs frequently in relation to a humiliating capture or death (ONP: gren).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.

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