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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Hsv 137VII

[3] beit ‘harness, bite’: There is a play here on the senses of beita: the expression beita fyrir ‘to harness (an animal) to (a vehicle, plough, etc.)’; and the sense of the same verb, ‘cause to bite, hunt’, which can relate to the killing of animals for sacrifice mentioned in the first cl.

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