[10] vílmegir ‘sons of toil’: Pl. of vílmǫgr, lit. ‘son of toil, bondsman’ (from víl ‘n. misery, wretchedness’ and mǫgr m. ‘son’). In Skm (SnE 1998, I, 106), this word is listed among pejorative terms, antonyms of various words for ‘hero’, and it is otherwise not attested in prose. See also Anon Bjark 1/3 and Note there.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Bjarkamál in fornu 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 497.
- (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)