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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to TorfE Lv 3I

[2] gótts manni vinna þrek ‘it is good for a man to do a heroic deed’: This type of gnomic utterance, reminiscent of Beowulf, e.g. ll. 186-8, is not especially prevalent in skaldic poetry and may go to support the theory of a connection between these lausavísur and the eddic Hamðismál (e.g. Hamð 8/5-8; see Olsen 1936a).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Olsen, Magnus. 1936a. ‘Torv-Einar og Hamðismál’. In Bidrag til nordisk filologi tillägnade Emil Olson den 9 juni 1936. Lund: Gleerup, 123-30. Rpt. in Olsen 1938a, 189-96.
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