[5] Hamskarpr: This name translates as ‘skin-sharp one’ (or perhaps ‘one thin in the flank’, from hamr m. ‘skin, shape’ and the adj. skarpr ‘sharp’; CVC: hamskarpr). The cpd is not attested elsewhere but must be a variant of Hamskerpir, the name of a horse and the father of Hófvarpnir mentioned in l. 6 below (cf. SnE 2005, 30).
References
- Bibliography
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.