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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Heiðv Lv 2VIII (Hrólf 3)/5 —  ‘Hó’

Þeir er í Vifilsey         váru lengi
ok hétu þar         hunda nöfnum
        Hoppr ok .

Þeir er váru lengi í Vifilsey ok hétu þar nöfnum hunda Hoppr ok .

They who were in Vifilsey for a long time and were called there by dogs’ names, Hoppr and .

notes

[5] Hoppr ok Hó ‘Hoppr and Hó’: The last line is perhaps not original. It is enclosed in square brackets in Skj B, while Skald omits the line altogether. The two names are appropriate to dogs; cf. ON hoppa ‘jump, dance’ (AEW: hoppa and references) and hóa ‘call’ and the exclamatory ho!

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