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Note to KormǪ Sigdr 1III

[3] aurgreppa ‘of the mud-men’: The cpd ǫrgreppa adopted by Kock (see Note above) is unacceptable because ǫr- ‘bold, intense’ in compounds is, in most cases, affixed to agent nouns, to participles or to deverbal adjectives to qualify the action (cf. also Kuhn 1936b, 149-50). Greppr ‘man’ belongs to none of these categories. The metre (Type E3) tends to favour a cpd in metrical positions 1-3 and aurgreppa ‘of the mud-men’ has been adopted here (the mss have ‘avr’ (R, W, U) and ‘aur’ ()) because aur- is a common element in giants’ names (LP: Aurboða, Aurgelmir, Aurgrímnir, Aurnir). Aur- does not, however, function as a determinant in this giant-kenning; that role falls to fentanna ‘of fen-teeth [ROCKS]’ (l. 2).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. 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.
  3. Kuhn, Hans (1899). 1936b. ‘Zu Ernst Albin Kocks Notationes Norrœnæ: Kritik der §§2501-10’. BGDSL 60, 133-60.

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