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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Brynju 1III

[1] hjalmgǫll (f.) ‘helmet-clang’: Not attested elsewhere as a cpd. The first element is hjálmr m. ‘helmet’ and the second a nomen actionis from the strong verbs gjalla, gella ‘cry, resound, make noise’. Kock (NN §§2565C, 2991E) believed that the correct form of this heiti was jalmgǫll ‘uproar-noise’, in which the first element is the poetic word jalmr m. ‘noise, bustle’ (cf. LP: jalmr). See also Note to [All] above.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.

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