[2] Skævaði ‘Skævaðr’: Lit. ‘racer’ (agent noun from the poetic weak verb skæva ‘hurry’) or ‘one who lifts his legs high’ (so Sturtevant 1948, 129). According to Anon Kálfv 1/7-8, Skævaðr is the horse of Helgi Haddingjaskati (see Note there). See also Þul Hesta 1/6.
References
- Bibliography
- Sturtevant, Albert Morey. 1948. ‘The Derivations of Old Norse Hǫlkvir and Fǫlkvir, Poetic Designations for horse’. MLN 63, 128-30.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Kálfsvísa 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 664.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hesta heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 935.