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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Sigv Lv 3I

[1, 3, 4] ek tók við sverði þínu ‘I accepted your sword’: In the ceremony of investiture as a retainer, the king would hold the haft of his sword over his right knee, and the aspiring retainer would grasp the haft with his right hand: see Hirðskrá chs 31, 43 (ed. Meissner 1938; Imsen 2000).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Imsen, Steinar, ed. 2000. Hirdloven til Norges konge og hans håndgangne menn, etter AM 322 fol. Oslo: Riksarkivet.
  3. Meissner, Rudolf, ed. 1938. Das norwegische Gefolschaftsrecht (Hirðskrá). Weimar: Böhlau.
  4. Internal references
  5. Not published: do not cite ()

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