[8] hǫfuðbaðmar ‘agnates’: Perhaps lit. ‘head stems’ (from baðmr m. ‘tree, stem’, or baðmr = barmr (SnE 1998, II, 238); see barmi ‘bosom-brother’ in l. 3 above), i.e. the principal member of a clan, kinsman on the male side, a legal term for an agnate lineage.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.