[8] Rær: Probably ‘man of the sail-yard, sailor’, from rá f. ‘sailyard’ (Björn Sigfússon 1934, 137; Finnur Jónsson 1934-5, 290), although the name is spelled ‘rer’ in R. See also Bragi Rdr 7/3, 12/3.
References
- Bibliography
- Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
- Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 38.