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Note to Þul Manna 4III

[2] gullskati ‘gold-skati’: From gull- ‘gold’ and skati m. ‘towering, lordly man’ (cf. New Norw. skate ‘tree trunk’). The pl. form skatnar ‘men’ is a poetic term used frequently by the skalds. In Skm (SnE 1998, I, 106), the heiti is given among other terms for ‘generous man’, most of which are also listed either in this stanza (in the pl. form sælkerar ‘affluent ones’, l. 4, auðkýfingar ‘money-bags’, l. 5, hǫfðingjar ‘chieftains’ l. 8) or in the previous stanza (mildingr, mæringr, mannbaldr ‘munificent one, illustrious one, prince of men’, st. 3/7-8).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  3. Internal references
  4. (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 26 April 2024)

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