bragarmál

Old Norse

Etymology

Compound of bragr (“poetic praise”) +‎ mál (“speech, language”)

Noun

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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