[5] hǫggstaðr (m.) ‘strike-place’: So A, B (744ˣ) (adopted by Falk 1914b, 16-17, Skj B and Skald). The first element of the cpd is hǫgg n. ‘strike, blow’ and the second is staðr m. ‘place’. This is a term for the broadest part of the blade. Cf. Karlamagnús saga (Unger 1860, 116): En þat sverð var faðms langt í millum hjalts ok hǫggstaðar ‘And that sword was a fathom long between the hilt and the strike-place’. The R, Tˣ, C variant (adopted in SnE 1998) hǫggfáðr lit. ‘strike-coloured’, i.e. ‘blood-stained’, does not occur elsewhere.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Unger, C. R., ed. 1860. Karlamagnus saga og kappa hans. Christiania (Oslo): H. J. Jensen.
- 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.
- Internal references
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