Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 24’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 776-7.
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2. þá (adv.): then
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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2. úfr (noun m.): uvula
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Eiríkr (noun m.): Eiríkr
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skera (verb): cut
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rómfǫr (noun f.): [a journey to Rome]
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ræsir (noun m.): ruler
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hefja (verb): lift, start
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
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blóðrás (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): [blood-loss]
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til (prep.): to
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bani (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death, killer
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2. leiða (verb; -dd): lead; (-sk) grow tired
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vitr (adj.): wise
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jarl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): poet, earl
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2. vestr (adv.): west, in the west
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með (prep.): with
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Englar (noun m.): English people
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Eiríkr died in England c. 1023. See Theodoricus (MHN 25), Ágr (ÍF 29, 24), Fsk (ÍF 29, 167), ÓHHkr (ÍF 27, 32), Flat 1860-8, I, 561. — [1-2]: In classical and medieval times, the most common treatment for a chronically swollen uvula (Lat. casus uv(ul)ae, ON úfsig lit. ‘uvula-sinking’) was to have it removed surgically (see KLNM 6, 72-4). See also McDougall and McDougall 1998, 75-6 n. 116 and the literature cited there.
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