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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to ÞjóðA Magnfl 16II

[4] hyrfeld ‘fire-razed’: This must join rǫnn lézt ‘you made, caused (to be)’ in l. 1 to form ‘you made buildings fire-razed’. The adj. can hardly belong with the couplet in which it is embedded, since giving ‘fire-razed houses’ to the fire would be illogical.

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