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Note to Þul Sverða 1III

[4] hǫguðr (m.) ‘useful one’: An agent noun from the weak verb haga ‘manage, succeed’; cf. hagna ‘be suitable, succeed’ and Hǫgnuðr, the name of a magic wand (stafsproti) in Vatnsdæla saga (ch. 44, ÍF 8, 120 and n. 2; see also Falk 1914b, 53). The B variant, hǫgguðr lit. ‘killer, striker’ (so also the LaufE mss), suggests a connection with hǫgg n. ‘stroke, blow’ and the strong verb hǫggva ‘strike, behead’. Hǫguðr is not attested elsewhere as a heiti for ‘sword’, and neither is the B variant hǫgguðr.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  3. ÍF 8 = Vatnsdœla saga. Ed. Einar Ólafur Sveinsson. 1939.
  4. Internal references
  5. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 28 May 2024)

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