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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Hauks 1III

[3] heiðir (m.) ‘heath-dweller’: So B. Ms. A has ‘heiþér’ (see Note to hamðir, l. 1 above). The heiti is probably derived from heiðr f. ‘heath’ and refers to a wild bird. Alternatively, it could be related to heiðr m. ‘honour, payment’ and mean ‘noble gift’ (if so, as Falk 1925a, 239 believes, this word possibly denotes a bird given as a gift or as payment).

References

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  2. Falk, Hjalmar. 1925a. ‘Die altnordischen Namen der Beizvögel’. In Germanica: Eduard Sievers zum 75. Geburtstage 25. November 1925. Halle (Saale): Niemeyer, 236-46.

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