Note to Þul Konunga 3III
[1] sinjórr (m.) ‘seigneur’: In the mss this word is spelled ‘Sinnioʀ’ (A) and ‘Sínnior’ (B), while Skm has sinnjór eða senjór (SnE 1998, I, 100). This is a loan word (< OFr. seignor < Lat. seniorem ‘lord’), first used and perhaps introduced by Sigvatr Þórðarson, in whose poetry this honorific occurs in two different forms: sinjórr (Sigv Berv 18/4II) and synjórr (Sigv ErfÓl 8/4I). The word survives in Modern Icelandic as signor, the title of a hreppstjóri ‘overseer’ of a hrepp(u)r (‘poor-law district’, now ‘parish’).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 19 April 2024)
- Judith Jesch 2017, ‘(Biography of) Sigvatr Þórðarson’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 347.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Bersǫglisvísur 18’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 30.
- Judith Jesch (ed.) 2012, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Erfidrápa Óláfs helga 8’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 674.