[5] hlummi (m. acc. pl.) ‘oar-handles’: This noun has the side-form hlumi (nom. hlumr), and the long form has been chosen because a long first syllable is required by the metre (a short syllable would result in resolution in position 1 and a hypometrical line). See also NN §3147.
References
- Bibliography
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.