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to tmesis, on the same pattern as ermoldus’s division of Engilinheim. An
instance is Hallfreðr óttarsson’s tmesis of Heiðabý:138
Bǫðserkjar hjó birki
barklaust í Danmǫrku
hleypimaðr fyr Heiða-
hlunnviggja -bý sunnan.139
‘the sea-warrior [running tree of roller-horses] cut down the
arm our-stripped army [bark-less birchwood of the war-shirt] in
denmark to the south of Hedeby.’
tmesis of the place-name Myrkviðr is seen in a stanza by the late tenth-
century poet einarr skálaglamm:
ok við frost at freista
fémildr konungr vildi
myrk- Hlóðynjar -markar
morðalfs, þess’s kom norðan.140
‘And in the winter the generous king wished to test the warrior
of norway [the land of the dark forest], who had come from the
north.’
138 kari ellen Gade, The Structure of Old Norse dróttkvætt Poetry, Islandica, vol. 49 (Ithaca,
ny: Cornell university Press, 1995), 214.
139 Óláfsdrápa v. 2: ‘Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld óttarsson: Óláfsdrápa’, ed. diana Whaley, in
Whaley, Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1, 393–4. Cf. Óláfsdrápa v. 5: finnur jónsson, Den
norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning, 3 (B.1):149; Heimskringla, ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson, 3 vols.,
íslenzk fornrit, vols. 26–28 (Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 1941–51), 1:263.
140 Vellekla 26.1–4: ‘einarr skálaglamm Helgason: Vellekla’, ed. edith Marold, in Poetry from
the Kings’ Sagas, 1:315–16. Cf. Vellekla 27 in Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigt ning, 3 (B.1):122;
finnur jónsson, ‘kenningers led-omstilling’, 13; Bjarni Aðal bjarnar son, Heimskringla,
1:256; konstantin Reichardt, ‘A Contribution to the Inter pretation of skaldic Poetry:
tmesis’, in Old Norse Literature and Mythology: A Symposium, ed. edgar C. Polomé
(Austin: university of texas Press, 1969), 210–11; contrast kock, Notationes norrœnæ,
§406.
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