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Note to Þul Sækonunga 1III

[8] Sveiði: The name occurs in several kennings for ‘ship’ and ‘sea’. Sveiði may perhaps mean ‘wounder’; cf. the hap. leg. sveiðanda spjót ‘smarting spear’ in Hjǫrleifr Lv 1/6VIII (Hálf 3), where sveiðandi is the pres. part. of the weak verb sveiða ‘smart’ (Björn Sigfússon 1934, 137). Cf. also Sveið, the name of a valkyrie (see Note to Þul Valkyrja 2/6), and the ox-name sveiðurr in Þjóð Yt 13/9I. A chieftain of this name is not known from other sources, but the sea-king Svaði Heitason is mentioned in Hversu Nóregr byggðisk (Flat 1860-8, I, 22).

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. Internal references
  5. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Heiti valkyrja 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 970.
  6. Edith Marold (ed.) 2012, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Ynglingatal 13’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 29.
  7. Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 13 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 316.
  8. Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 3 (Hjǫrleifr konungr, Lausavísa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 306.

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