[5, 6] forða snǫru hjarta ‘save his valiant heart’: The phrase is a variant of forða fjǫrvi ‘save one’s life’ in Arn Hryn 6/7 and widely in prose, rather as hverr fótr ‘every foot’ stands for the whole warrior in st. 15/8 of the present poem.
References
- Internal references
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Hrynhenda, Magnússdrápa 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 190-1.