[6] Hremsa: Lit. ‘shaft’ (see ÞjóðA Sex 15/3II), either from the weak verb hremsa, hremma ‘grasp, clutch’ (so Falk 1914b, 99) or from hremsa f. ‘paw, claw’ (so AEW: hremsa). This is the name of one of King Gusir’s arrows captured by Ketill hœngr (see Notes to Flaug, l. 4 above and to smíðis Gusis ‘Gusir’s handiwork’, st. 2/4 below).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite (KethVIII)
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Sexstefja 15’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 127-8.