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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sverða 6III

[4] vindþvari (m.) ‘wind-borer’: Not attested elsewhere as a cpd. Most likely the sense of this term is ‘one that pierces the air with strokes’ (cf. Meissner 8). Falk (1914b, 63) suggests that the heiti means either ‘oblique-borer’ (from the adj. vindr ‘oblique, warped’) or ‘Wendish borer’, i.e. a Wendish sword (from Vindr, Vindir ‘Wends’). Cf. also ormþvari ‘serpent-borer’ (st. 2/4, see Note there).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
  3. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.

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