[6] lundr ‘the tree <warrior>’: Commonly the base-word of a kenning for ‘man’ or ‘warrior’, here a half-kenning for ‘man, warrior’. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends þá er (l. 5) to hjǫrs ‘of the sword’ to give a two-part warrior kenning lund hjǫrs ‘tree of the sword’, but this is unjustified both palaeographically and from the point of view of late skaldic diction, where such half-kennings are common (cf. Meissner 78-80; NN §184 and Faulkes 2011b, 95 n.).
References
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- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
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