[3] hremni (n.) ‘fifth plank’: ModIcel. hrefna is the term for the fifth strake from the keel, and Falk (1912, 53) suggests a connection between this nautical term and ON hrefni (so mss Tˣ, C, A, B; for the R variant hremni, see ANG §237.2). See also Jesch (2001a, 141).
References
- Bibliography
- Jesch, Judith. 2001a. Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse. Woodbridge: Boydell.
- ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1912. Altnordisches Seewesen. Wörter und Sachen 4. Heidelberg: Winter.