[5] milskaz ‘is sweet’: Finnur Jónsson (LP: milska) translates: mit navn blandes, bliver utydeligt (?) for dig ‘my name is muddled, becomes unclear (?) for you’ (cf. Skj B: fordunkles, ved Petri fornægtelse, vistnok ‘is obscured, doubtless through Peter’s denial’). But as Kock observes (NN §1727), the sense of milska here is rather to be compared with that of OE miliscian ‘to become sweet, mellow’ (cf. Bosworth and Toller 1898: milisc, miliscian; Bosworth and Toller, 1921 Supplement: gemilscod; AEW: milska 2).
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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.
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