[5] Hǫlkvi ‘Hǫlkvir’: A heiti for ‘horse’ in Þul Hesta 3/1 and the name of Hǫgni’s horse in Vǫlsunga saga (Vǫls ch. 29; see also Akv 30/7 and AEW: hǫlkvir 1-2). In poetry, the word is used as a heiti for ‘horse’.
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Vǫls = Vǫlsunga saga.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hesta heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 937.
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- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Vǫlsunga saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 790. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10832> (accessed 24 April 2024)