[7] geirleik ‘spear-play [BATTLE]’: The mss render the last element of this cpd as ‘-læc’, in which <æ> represents earlier [ei], reflecting the development in Norwegian dialects after 1150 (see Seip 1955, 143; Hl 1941, 105).
References
- Bibliography
- Seip, Didrik Arup. 1955. Norsk språkhistorie til omkring 1370. 2nd edn. Oslo: Aschehoug.
- Hl 1941 = Jón Helgason and Anne Holtsmark, eds. 1941. Háttalykill enn forni. BA 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.