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This article analyses the Old Norse term tafn. Several possible meanings for tafn have been proposed, including ‘carrion’, ‘corpse’, and ‘sacrifice’. This essay examines occurrences of tafn in pre-Christian skaldic verse, post-Conversion religious texts, and late medieval chivalric/heroic sagas, in order to elucidate the diachronic development of the term.
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