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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Bragi Rdr 11III

[1] fyr hǫnd ‘on behalf of’: Understood here to take the gen. case of the person on whose behalf something is done (so SnE 1998, II, 327-8), represented by the kenning Viðris Hveðru brynju ‘the Viðrir <= Óðinn> of the Hveðra <troll-woman> of the mail-coat [BATTLE-AXE > WARRIOR]’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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