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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sea-kings 1III

[6] Rǫkkvi: Or Røkkvi. See also Þul Sækonunga heiti 4/1. Perhaps the name means ‘one who goes (sails, attacks) in the dusk’ (from røkkr m. ‘twilight’; so Björn Sigfússon 1934, 137). Finnur Jónsson (1934-5, 295) suggests that the word could be derived from the adj. rakkr ‘courageous’. The name is used in kennings for ‘sea’, ‘ship’ and ‘shield’ (LP: Rǫkkvi).

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. Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
  4. Finnur Jónsson. 1934-5. ‘Þulur: Søkonge- og jættenavneremserne’. APS 9, 289-308.

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