[5, 8] kennir mér sofa lítit ‘teaches me to sleep but little’: Echoes Hróksv Lv 19/1-2VIII. For the motif of love causing sleeplessness, see also Mgóð Lv 2 and Run B255VI, a rune stick from Bergen, Norway (c. 1300).
References
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Magnús inn góði Óláfsson, Lausavísur 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 6-7.
- Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 69 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 19)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 358.