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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Ólhv Hryn 4II

[8] drengi (m. acc. pl.) ‘men’: Used as an acc. of accompaniment with the preposition með ‘with’ (l. 8). The origin and meaning of the word drengr (m. nom. sg.) are much debated by scholars. The most basic meaning of the term in skaldic poetry, as in the present st., is ‘(youthful) man’, which often carried the connotation ‘warrior’ by hyponymy (see Goetting 2006).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Goetting, Lauren. 2006. ‘Þegn and drengr in the Viking Age’. SS 78, 375-404.

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