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Note to Oddi Lv 1II

[4] við dyrr á tjaldi ‘by the door on the tapestry’: Finnbogi Guðmundsson (ÍF 34, 202-3) suggests that tjald, here and in Rv Lv 13, means ‘wall’, by means of a complex pun, and that the figure is depicted as standing on a wall with a door in it. As Poole points out (2006, 149), it is simpler to read tjald as ‘wall-hanging’. This wall-hanging then presumably depicted an armed man standing by a doorway. See also Notes to Rv Lv 13.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ÍF 34 = Orkneyinga saga. Ed. Finnbogi Guðmundsson. 1965.
  3. Internal references
  4. Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson, Lausavísur 13’ 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. 590-1.

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