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Note to Þul Sækonunga 1III

[3] Beiti: As the name of a sea-king, Beiti occurs only once in a kenning for ‘sea’ (see ESk Frag 1/1). In Am 61/1 Beiti is King Atli’s brother, but in the present stanza the name most likely belongs to one of the sons of Górr, a sea-king mentioned in Hversu Nóregr byggðisk (Flat 1860-8, I, 22) along with other ancient chieftains listed in this stanza (Glammi l. 2, Geitir l. 7 and Gylfi l. 8). According to Finnur Jónsson (1934-5, 293), the name is perhaps derived from beit n. ‘ship’ (or it can be the weak form of the adj. beitr ‘biting’). Björn Sigfússon (1934, 127-8) explains it as ‘one who manoeuvers’ (cf. the weak verb beita ‘cruise, tack’).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
  3. Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
  4. Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.
  5. Internal references
  6. Not published: do not cite ()
  7. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Fragments 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 151.

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