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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (Vǫlsa) 13I

[12] rǫg sártíkin ‘perverted wound-bitch’: Sártík f. is a hap. leg., with suffixed def. art -in. The word sár ‘wound, pain’ might refer both to the housewife, who is deeply hurt by seeing Vǫlsi in the dog’s mouth, and to Vǫlsi itself. Rǫg is f. nom. sg. of ragr, a term of extreme abuse normally applied to men to imply cowardice or passive homosexuality.

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