[7] geitarson ‘a goat’s son’: For the loss of the final -r in the nom. sg. of such compounds, see ANG §395.1. See also sonr Sýrar ‘Sýr’s son’ in Lv 1/3 above, and the implied comparison between Haraldr’s (the sow’s son’s) passivity and parsimony (see Lv 1 above) and the virility of the ‘goat’s son’ filled with gold. For possible sexual innuendos, see Notes to Mgóð Lv 1/4 and SnH Lv 11/1. See also Note to Lv 3/3 below.
References
- Bibliography
- ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Magnús inn góði Óláfsson, 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. 5-6.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sneglu-Halli, Lausavísur 11’ 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. 331-2.