[3] gjarn til gunnar ‘eager for battle’: This alliterative expression occurs elsewhere in Old Norse poetry, albeit without the prep. til; cf. Ǫrv 7/3, Hálf 36/7 and HHund I 34/7.
References
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- Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 36 (Innsteinn Gunnlaðarson, Innsteinskviða 16)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 333.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 7 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 819.