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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þloft Glækv 9I

[7] ár ok frið ‘prosperity and peace’: A formulaic phrase (though recorded only here in extant skaldic verse), with possible origins in pre-Christian ideas of kingship (see Lönnroth 1986, 83-6; Rainford 1995, 104-8).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Rainford, Jessica. 1995. ‘Óláfr Haraldsson, King and Saint of Norway, and the Development of Skaldic Style (ca.1015-ca.1153)’. D. Phil. thesis. University of Oxford.
  3. Lönnroth, Lars. 1986. ‘Dómaldi’s Death and the Myth of Sacral Kingship’. In Lindow et al. 1986, 73-93.

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