[3-4] ifjungr, ifli, ifill ‘hooded one, blindfolded one, bound one’: All these heiti are supposedly related to ifingr m. ‘cap, (head) bandage’ and they probably refer to a tame bird kept blindfolded or under a hood (Falk 1925a, 242-3). Of the three words only ifli m. ‘blindfolded one’ occurs as a poetic term for ‘hawk’ (cf. LP: ifli). Ifjungr m. ‘hooded one’ is also listed in Þul Bjarnar l. 12, but ifill m. is a hap. leg. Owing to the successive arrangement of the cognate words, the alliteration in ll. 3-4 is irregular.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1925a. ‘Die altnordischen Namen der Beizvögel’. In Germanica: Eduard Sievers zum 75. Geburtstage 25. November 1925. Halle (Saale): Niemeyer, 236-46.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Bjarnar heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 895. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3213> (accessed 6 April 2025)