[5] Angrvaðill: Lit. ‘sorrow-wader’. The name of a legendary sword in Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar (FSN II, 390-459), which never occurs in poetry. The cpd consists of the two elements angr m. ‘grief, sorrow’ and ‑vaðill from the strong verb vaða ‘wade’. The B variant Angrvandill may have resulted from confusion with Vandill, the name of a sea-king (see Notes to st. 1/4 and Þul Sækonunga 5/2; see also Þul Jǫtna II 1/6). The LaufE mss all have (normalised) angrvaðill, the reading of ms. A.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga heiti 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 685.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti II 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 719.
- Not published: do not cite ()
- (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 17 May 2024)