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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Feima Lv 1VIII (GrL 2)

[2, 4] ek var fædd norðarla; ór háfjalli ‘I was born in northern parts; from the high mountain’: An origin in the north and in the mountains is typical of giants, cf. such kennings for ‘giant’ as bergbúi ‘mountain dweller’ Hym 2/1 or fjallbúi (same meaning) in Ǫrv 89/1.

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Not published: do not cite ()
  3. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 89 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 19)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 902.

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