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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Øxar 1III

[4] skráma (f.): The word is possibly related to Goth. skrama ‘sword, knife’, Old Frankish scramasax (cf. the strong verb skera ‘cut’; AEW: skráma 2 and skera), although the difference in vowel quantity ([a:] and [a]) cannot be explained. It is possible that the long vowel in ON skráma could have been influenced by Skráma, the name of a troll-woman (Gunnars saga Keldugnúpsfífls, ÍF 14, 362; Falk 1914b, 115).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  4. ÍF 14 = Kjalnesinga saga. Ed. Jóhannes Halldórsson. 1959.
  5. Internal references
  6. Not published: do not cite ()

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