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King Magnus Ólafsson translated the phrase: ‘drekkum bjór af bragði / ór bjúgviðum hausa’ as ‘we shall soon drink beer out of the skulls of those they killed’. However, it should have read ‘we shall soon drink beer from the curved trees of skulls’, alluding to a wooden drinking horn.25
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages
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