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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Lil 16VII

[6] margbrugðinn ‘shifty, often-changed’: Probably derived from the idiom bregða sier í líki ‘take on the form, appearance of something, somebody’ (see ONP: bregða), perhaps with the additional connotation ‘having made many winding, tortuous movements’ (JH). This is the earliest known occurrence of the word in ON: see Sigfús Blöndal 1920-4 for its use in MIcel.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Sigfús Blöndal. 1920-4. Islandsk-dansk ordbog / Íslensk-dönsk orðabók. Reykjavík, Copenhagen and Kristiania (Oslo): Verslun Þórarins B. Þorlákssonar / Aschehoug.
  3. 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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