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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Skipa 7III

[4] halsstemni (n.) ‘hawse-stem’: Perhaps the name for the inner part of the stem of a ship or the grooved stem (i.e. where the planks were grooved into each other or into the stem, see Falk 1912, 35; SnE 1998, II, 301), from hals m. ‘fore-part of ship, bow’ (see l. 5) and stemni n. (or stefni) ‘stem’ (see Note to hremni ‘fifth plank’ (l. 3)). The term does not otherwise occur in poetry.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Falk, Hjalmar. 1912. Altnordisches Seewesen. Wörter und Sachen 4. Heidelberg: Winter.
  3. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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