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Note to Keth Lv 15VIII (Ket 23)

[1-2] ertu langleit … ok lætr róa nefit ‘you are long-faced … and you let your nose row’: A long, snout-like nose and large, hanging lips are mentioned as characteristics of giants in several fornaldarsögur, e.g. in the description of Geirríðr Gandvíkrekkja ‘woman of Gandvíkr’, a figure descended from giants, in GrL (FSGJ 2, 191; see the examples mentioned by Schulz 2004, 152-3).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
  3. Schulz, Katja. 2004. Riesen: Von Wissenshütern und Wildnisbewohnern in Edda und Saga. Skandinavistische Arbeiten 20. Heidelberg: Winter.
  4. Internal references
  5. 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Gríms saga loðinkinna’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 288. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=76> (accessed 25 April 2024)

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