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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Heiðr Lv 2VIII (Ǫrv 2)

[6] sægjum ‘in billows’: The meaning of this noun is not certain. Sœgr, later sægr, occurs as a simplex meaning ‘sea’ in several kennings (LP: sœgr), but here a sense like ‘waves, billows’ seems to be required (see NN §119 for probable cognates in other Germanic languages). However, as LP: sœgr suggests, it may here be identical in meaning with ModIcel. sægur ‘swarm, crowd’ (of people), in which case the meaning would refer to the multitude of waves rather than their size.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. 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.

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