[4] bráðmôl ‘welded patterns’: Môl are patterns on sword blades or sword hilts (see LP: 3. mál; Falk 1914b, 32), and bráð- apparently refers to the process of engraving by means of fire. Kock (NN §2080) calls attention to OE fȳrmǣl ‘mark burned in by fire’ used about swords. See also the original meaning of the adj. bráðr (AEW: bráðr and discussion there). Following Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848, 246), Skj B construes bráð as the adj. brôð ‘quick, bold’ (f. nom. sg.) qualifying sveit ‘company’ (l. 2) but bráð and môl belong together (see NN §§985, 2080).
References
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