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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Lil 9VII

[4] blývarða (hap. leg.) ‘plumb bob’: An echo of Exod. XV.10, which describes the fate of Pharaoh’s army pursuing the Israelites into the Red Sea: submersi sunt quasi plumbum in aquis vehementibus ‘they sunk as lead in the mighty waters’.

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