bragarmál

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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Compound of bragr (poetic praise)mál (speech, language)

Noun

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bragarmál n

  1. poetical diction
  2. (poetry) a contraction of a short unstressed word; for instance varð ek > varð’k ‘I became’, þá es > þá’s ‘at the time when’

Declension

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