Cookies on our website

We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used. You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on the cookies page.

Continue

skaldic

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Menu Search

Note to Anon Líkn 40VII

[3] hyggju túns ‘of thought’s enclosure [BREAST]’: Tún lit. ‘hedge’ is a ‘hedged plot, field’ or simply ‘enclosure’; Guðrún Nordal 2001, 256 translates the kenning ‘field of the mind’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Guðrún Nordal. 2001. Tools of Literacy: The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press.

Close

Log in

This service is only available to members of the relevant projects, and to purchasers of the skaldic volumes published by Brepols.
This service uses cookies. By logging in you agree to the use of cookies on your browser.

Close