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Note to Bragi Rdr 8III

[4] veðr boga ‘the storm of bows [BATTLE]’: Kock (NN §1505) takes R, ’s reading boða as the second part of a cpd veðrboða ‘storm-offerer [WARRIOR = Heðinn]’ and construes it with til fárhuga (l. 3) to mean ‘for the storm-offerer’s hostile intent’. Marold (1983, 75) suggests emending veðr to veðs and understanding boði veðs ‘offerer of a pledge’ as a kenning for the atonement-seeking Heðinn.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. Marold, Edith. 1983. Kenningkunst: Ein Beitrag zu einer Poetik der Skaldendichtung. Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der germanischen Völker, new ser. 80. Berlin: de Gruyter.

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