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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sáðs 1III

[All]: Of the twenty heiti for ‘grain’ given in this stanza, nine never appear in other Old Norse poetic sources: ǫgn f. ‘chaff’ (l. 2), áll m. ‘sprout’, efstakné n. ‘uppermost member’ (l. 3), eigin n. ‘shoot’, skotblað n. ‘shoot-blade’ (l. 4), kné n. ‘knee’ (l. 5), ginhafri m. ‘false-oats’ (l. 7), korki m. (l. 8), barlak (l. 8). Many of these are hap. leg. The heiti ǫgn ‘chaff’ does occur in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: ǫgn).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.

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