[1] liðhraustan ‘troop-bold’: Kock (NN §3235) deliberates whether lið- might be from liðr ‘joint, limb’ rather than from lið n. ‘troop, army’. If so, liðhraustan would mean, according to him, med kraftig arm, (kroppsligt) stark ‘with a strong arm, (physically) strong’. No known cpd adj. has that word as its first element, however, whereas such adjectives as liðgegn ‘helpful to men’, liðdrjúgr ‘strong in number’ and liðstórr ‘great of help’ (all LP) are quite common. The adj. liðhraustr also appears in Mark Eirdr 26/2II (on the meaning, see Note there).
References
- Bibliography
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Internal references
- Jayne Carroll (ed.) 2009, ‘Markús Skeggjason, Eiríksdrápa 26’ 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, pp. 455-6.