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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Trollkvenna 4III

[6] Eisurfála: A hap. leg., perhaps meaning ‘storm-troll-woman’. For the second element, see fála (st. 3/2). The first element may be connected with the weak verb eisa ‘rush’ (Finnur Jónsson 1934-5, 305; cf. the poetic phrase ganga eisandi ‘go dashing through the waves’). Motz (1981, 505) derives it from eisa f. ‘glowing embers, fire’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.
  3. Motz, Lotte. 1981. ‘Giantesses and Their Names’. FS 15, 495-511.

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