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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sækonunga 4III

[7] Þvinnill: The name occurs in several kennings. It is perhaps originally a nickname from the stem *þvin- ‘pining’ (cf. New Norw. tvinel ‘a poor person checked in growth’, tvina ‘dwindle’, OE þwīnan ‘get less, dwindle’; so Björn Sigfússon 1934, 139).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Björn Sigfússon. 1934. ‘Names of Sea-Kings (heiti sækonunga)’. MP 32, 125-42.

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