[7] herr ‘people’: Herr can mean ‘army’ or ‘people, inhabitants’ (LP: herr 2). The latter meaning is adopted here because the word refers to the inhabitants of Denmark and not to the Dan. army.
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.