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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þjóð Haustl 15III

[2] endilôg ‘low from end to end’: This cpd hap. leg. adj. has been taken by most eds as f. nom. sg. to qualify grund ‘ground, earth’ (l. 3) and, while this is possible, it is also possible, and syntactically more natural (so Wood 1960b, 153-5), to take it as n. nom. pl. with vé ginnunga ‘sanctuaries of hawks’ in a sky-kenning, of the kind noted by Meissner 108 as belonging to the type ‘province of the bird’ (cf. Marold 1983, 170).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
  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.
  4. Wood, Cecil. 1960b. ‘Scaldic Notes’. SS 32, 153-8.

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