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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Sturl Hrafn 4II

[4] vegljóma ‘of the glory-flash’: Hap. leg. LP: vegljómi takes the first part of the cpd as the noun vegr ‘road’ rather than vegr ‘glory, honour’ and construes the kenning vegljóma brims (ll. 3, 4) as an inverted kenning: ‘the road-flash of the surf’ i.e. ‘the flash of the road of the surf’, i.e. ‘the flash of the sea’ (‘gold’). That interpretation is also possible, but see st. 9/2.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.

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