[7] Regins ‘of Reginn <dwarf>’: Reginn is best known as a legendary smith (see Note to Þjóð Haustl 12/6III), but reginn is among the heiti for ‘dwarf’ (Þul Dverga 6/4III), and a dwarf is to be expected in a poetry-kenning.
References
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga heiti 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 704.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Haustlǫng 12’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 449.