[8] ámátt ‘terrible’: Hap. leg., formed from máttr ‘might’ and the intensifying prefix á- (on which see Falk 1928b, 345-50). Cf. ámátligstar ‘the most overwhelming’ GrL 1/7, and see Note there. The reading of R715ˣ, hurfum heim báðir ‘let us both turn home’, is unmetrical.
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1928b. ‘Prefiks-studier’. In Brøndum-Nielsen et al. 1928, 339-50.
- Internal references
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Gríms saga loðinkinna 1 (Grímr loðinkinni, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 289.