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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Gísl Lv 1II

[6] dreng (m. dat. sg.) ‘to the young warrior’: For the different meanings of this word, see LP: drengr and Goetting 2006. The noun is an i-stem (no ending in the dat. sg.). Drengs (m. gen. sg.) ‘of the young warrior’ (so 5, papp4ˣ, 392ˣ) is also a possible reading.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. Goetting, Lauren. 2006. ‘Þegn and drengr in the Viking Age’. SS 78, 375-404.

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