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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (FoGT) 8III

[8] veginn arf ‘the slain [man’s] inheritance’: This phrase was apparently the rhetorical reason for quoting st. 8, as it illustrates the figure of hypallage, transferring the quality of a man who had been killed to the inheritance for which, presumably, his attackers killed him. The usage is rather strained, however, as Björn Magnússon Ólsen (FoGT 1884, 250) noted, and strengthens the likelihood that the stanza was invented by the author of the treatise.

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  2. FoGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.

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