[6] eyjarskeggja ‘island-beards’: That is, the inhabitants of an island. This term occurs in poetry elsewhere only in Heiðr 19/4 and Frið 23/4 (see Note there). The unnamed islands referred to here are presumably the Orkneys, as mentioned in the prose texts.
References
- Internal references
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 66 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 19)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 430.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 23 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 18)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 220.