[8] varp ‘cast [the warp]’: Lit. ‘threw’. Here the reference is probably to the action of casting the weft, the threads that cross from side to side of a web on the warp-weighted loom, at right angles to the warp threads with which they are interwoven. Cf. a similar use of the verb verpa in the context of weaving in Anon Darr 1/1, 2/1V(Nj 53, 54).
References
- Internal references
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2022, ‘Njáls saga 53 (Anonymous Poems, Darraðarljóð 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1299.
- R. D. Fulk (forthcoming), ‘ Anonymous, Darraðarljóð’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1008> (accessed 3 May 2024)