[5] Kílmundr: This name is a hap. leg. According to Björn Sigfússon (1934, 134), the first element may be cognate with MLG kīl ‘wedge’ (cf. ModNorw., ModDan. kile ‘wedge’), hence, ‘one with a wedge’. Finnur Jónsson (1934-5, 296) suggests a connection with kíll m. ‘inlet’. Cf. also Kíli among the dwarf-names in Þul Dverga 6/1. Otherwise Kílmundr may be related to kjǫlr m. ‘keel’ (see ÍO: Kílmund(u)r). The C variant Bilmundr must be a scribal error.
References
- Bibliography
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- 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
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga heiti 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 704.