[3-4] vísa vǫrn ‘secure protection’: So Skj B. Both Skald and Faulkes construe vísa as the noun vísa (m. gen. sg.) ‘of the ruler’ qualifying vǫrn ‘protection of the ruler’ (see NN §§2057B, 2509, 2902F, SnE 1998, II, 430; but see Kuhn 1936b, 148 n. 1).
References
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- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
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