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Note to Þul Valkyrja 2III

[6] Reginleif: Lit. ‘daughter of a mighty one, mighty daughter’. Both elements of this cpd appear in personal names. The first element is regin n. pl. ‘divine powers, gods’, and the second, ‑leif f. originally meant ‘remains, inheritance’, by transfer of meaning ‘daughter’ (see AEW: Leifr). Reginleif is also mentioned in Grí 36/8. It does not occur in poetry, but in Ldn (ÍF 1, 229), Reginleif is the name of the daughter of one of the first settlers of Iceland, Sæmundr inn suðreyski ‘from the Hebrides’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. ÍF 1 (parts 1 and 2) = Íslendingabók; Landnámabók. Ed. Jakob Benediktsson. 1968. Rpt. as one volume 1986.
  4. Internal references
  5. (forthcoming), ‘ Anonymous, Landnámabók’ in Guðrún Nordal (ed.), Poetry on Icelandic History. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 4. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=25> (accessed 6 May 2024)
  6. Not published: do not cite ()

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