[2] dæla (f.) ‘dale’: The term for a kind of gutter that was used to empty out the bilge water (Falk 1912, 6); cf. dalr ‘dale, valley’ (AEW: dæla and OED: dale, n.3). The word does not otherwise occur as a nautical term in skaldic verse, but it is used in kennings for ‘ship’ in later rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: dæla).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1912. Altnordisches Seewesen. Wörter und Sachen 4. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- OED = Murray, J. A. H. et al., eds. 1884-1928. The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon. 2nd edn 1989. Simpson, J. A. and E. S. C. Weiner, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.