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  • Edward Pettit (author)
Chapter of: The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition(pp. 231–258)
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TitleHárbarðsljóð
ContributorEdward Pettit (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0308.06
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0308/chapters/10.11647/obp.0308.06
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightEdward Pettit
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-03-03
Page rangepp. 231–258
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  3. Bax, M., and T. Padmos, ‘Two Types of Verbal Dueling in Old Icelandic: The Interactional Structure of the Senna and the Mannjafnaðr in Hárbarðsljóð’, SS 55 (1983), 149–74.
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  7. Frotscher, A. G., ‘The War of the Words — A History of Flyting from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages’ (PhD thesis, University of Oxford, 2004).
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