[7] svipaljótr (m.) ‘ugly-swooping one’: A cpd not attested elsewhere, from the weak verb svipa ‘swoop, move swiftly’ and the adj. ljótr ‘ugly’ (see SnE 1998, II, 409), i.e. ‘one terrible in its motion’ (so LP: svipaljótr). According to Falk (1914b, 60), the cpd may have the same meaning as the adj. svipillr ‘ill-looking’ (if the first element is interpreted as svipr m. in the sense ‘appearance’).
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.