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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Framarr Lv 1VIII (Ket 34)

[7-8]: These two lines are conventional circumlocutions for ‘I have done battle’ and refer to the corpses of warriors killed by the victor in battle and upon which birds of prey (eagles and ravens) feed (Jesch 2001a, 248; Jesch 2002b, 254-6).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Jesch, Judith. 2001a. Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse. Woodbridge: Boydell.
  3. Jesch, Judith. 2002b. ‘Eagles, Ravens and Wolves: Beasts of Battle, Symbols of Victory and Death’. In Jesch 2002a, 251-80.

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