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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sáðs 1III

[7] ginhafri (m.) ‘false-oats’: A hap. leg. This heiti most likely designates a kind of oats (hafri). The word might be related to Orkney ginn ‘a kind of wild oats’ (also used as the first element in compounds, e.g ginnowy ‘poor oats’; see Marwick 1929, 54 and Grøn 1927, 38-9) and ON ginn m. ‘deceit’. Finnur Jónsson (LP: ginhafri) derives the first part of the word from gin n. ‘mouth’ (of beasts) and hence interprets this heiti as ‘gaping oats’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. 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.
  3. Grøn, Fredrik. 1927. Om kostholdet i Norge indtil 1500. Oslo: Dybwad.
  4. Marwick, Hugh. 1929. The Orkney Norn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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