[4] sultan: A loan word ultimately from Arabic. Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 109) argues that the presence of this word means that it is unlikely that the half-stanza is old. The word occurs as the nickname of Nikolás sultan, King Sverrir’s maternal uncle (Sv chs 97, 108, ÍF 30, 150, 166; cf. ONP: sultan).
References
- Bibliography
- ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
- ÍF 30 = Sverris saga. Ed. Þorleifur Hauksson. 2007.
- TGT 1927 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1927b. Óláfr Þórðarson: Málhljóða- og málskrúðsrit. Grammatisk-retorisk afhandling. Det kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske meddelelser 13, 2. Copenhagen: Høst.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Sverris saga’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=2> (accessed 21 May 2024)