[8] rítar (f. nom. pl.) ‘shields’: A somewhat problematic form. The word is otherwise attested only as a consonant stem (pl. rítr), but rítar must be an ō-stem (see Hl 1941). According to Holtsmark (Hl 1941, 135), the form could be Norwegian.
References
- Bibliography
- Hl 1941 = Jón Helgason and Anne Holtsmark, eds. 1941. Háttalykill enn forni. BA 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.