[5] véttlimi (m.) ‘battle-broom’: This cpd, which is not attested elsewhere, is formed from vétt- ‘battle’ (cf. véttrim ‘battle-rim’, Þul Sverða 11/3) and ‑limi ‘broom’ or ‘rod of twigs’ (or ‑lími ‘broom’; see Falk 1914b, 138). Falk (1914b, 137-8, followed by SnE 1998, II, 426) takes this heiti to mean ‘battle-bundle’, and suggests that véttlimi may refer to a wicker shield made of rods.
References
- Bibliography
- 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
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 11’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 809.