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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sverða 11III

[4] missifengr (m.) ‘mis-hitting one’: A substantivised adj. (missifengr ‘one missing his aim’; see also the adj. misfengr with the same meaning). Although it is recorded among the heiti for parts of the sword, it is probably a sword-heiti (Falk 1914b, 56). Just like the semantically similar sword-heiti ljúgfengr ‘fail-striking one’ (st. 10/5; see Note there), missifengr does not occur elsewhere as a term for ‘sword’.

References

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  2. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.

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