[3] Áti: Perhaps Áti inn svarti ‘the Black’ mentioned in Úlfrauð Útkv 2/4VIII (Hálf 42). The name is frequently found in kennings for ‘ship’ and ‘sea’ (LP: Áti 1). It is probably originally a word of the same type as sessi m. ‘benchmate’, máli m. ‘acquaintance’, rúni m. ‘counsellor’, derived from át n. ‘the act of eating, a meal’, and hence perhaps ‘messmate’ (Björn Sigfússon 1934, 127). Alternatively, Áti could be related to the Old High German pers. n. Anzo (AEW: Áti).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
- Internal references
- Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 42 (Úlfr inn rauði, Útsteinskviða 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 338.