[1] gerðir ‘versifications’: Cf. AEW: gerð 1 (from gera ‘to make/do’ etc.). With the sense ‘(verse-)makings’, cf. LP: hróðr-, ljóða-, lof-, óð-gørð (cf. OED: making, vbl. sb.1 3 ‘Poetical composition; poetizing, versifying’).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- OED = Murray, J. A. H. et al., eds. 1884-1928. The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon. 2nd edn 1989. Simpson, J. A. and E. S. C. Weiner, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.