[1] Ekkill: Lit. ‘one who lives (sails, fights) alone’ (Björn Sigfússon 1934, 128); cf. ekkill m. ‘widower’, Goth. ainakls ‘single, alone’. The name occurs in kennings for ‘ship’, ‘sea’ and ‘battle’ (LP: Ekkill). In Hversu Nóregr byggðisk (Flat 1860-8, I, 22), the sea-king Ekkill is said to be the brother of Skekkill and the son of Myndill (cf. Mundill, l. 5). See also Þul Sækonunga 2/3.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 680.