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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Pl 52VII

[5] : The l. requires a long syllable alliterating with ellri or þollr (unless a conjecture in l. 6 is made), forming the base-word of a kenning. Jón Helgason proposed éls ‘of the storm’, forming a battle-kenning, but éls would produce three internal rhymes.

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