[2] Leifnir: Perhaps derived from Leifi (see st. 3/8 above; Björn Sigfússon 1934, 134). See also leifnir among the ship-heiti (Þul Skipa 2/8). The name occurs in several kennings and as the first element of the sword-name Leifnisgrand ‘Leifnir’s harm’ (Þul Sverða 2/6), which is a kenning for ‘sword’.
References
- Bibliography
- Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða 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. 791.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Skipa 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. 863.