[2] hrækerti ‘the corpse-candle [SWORD]’: A sword-kenning with a base-word expressing the concept ‘fire, flame’, as in sárlogi ‘wound-flame’ (l. 5); cf. blóðkerti ‘blood-candle’, understood from the context (Árm Lv 1/8II and Note) as a spear-kenning, but closely matching common patterns for sword-kennings (cf. Meissner 150-1). Falk (1914b, 52) records several sword names with the element hræ- ‘corpse’.
References
- Bibliography
- Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Ármóðr, Lausavísur 1’ 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. 620-1.