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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Gamlkan Has 20VII

[8] betri ‘better’: Jón Helgason (1935-6, 257) supposed that the two comparatives dýrri and betri cause difficulties of a stylistic kind. He therefore emended betri to letri, from letr ‘letter’, interpreting the final couplet as meaning that God is more holy (dýrri) than any description, but this seems not a good ground for emendation.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Jón Helgason. 1935-6. ‘Til skjaldedigtningen’. APS 10, 250-64.

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