[8] merkir blóðsvara ‘the stainer of blood-birds [RAVENS/EAGLES > WARRIOR = Snorri]’: This refers to a warrior staining (lit. ‘marking’) a bird of prey with blood by providing it with carrion. Svǫrr is a species of bird (see Þul Fugla 3/1).
References
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Fugla 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. 954.