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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Gamlkan Has 61VII

[2-4] brjótr Mistar myrkleygs ‘the destroyer of Mist’s <valkyrie> dark flame [SWORD > WARRIOR]’: Cf. the man-kenning slǫngvir Mistar elda ‘slinger of Mist’s fires’ in 2/1. There are thematic and dictional echoes here of st. 5, where men, characterised as viðir Mistar linns ‘trees of Mist’s snake’, are promised sannri líkn ok sýknu fyr vás ok galla ‘true mercy and acquittal for sinfulness and flaws’, by Christ.

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