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Note to Þul Hjálms 1III

[8] fík-Móinn ‘greedy-Móinn’: This cpd is not attested elsewhere. The heiti is formed from the poetic adj. fíkr ‘greedy, eager’ and Móinn, the name of a mythical serpent (Þul Orma 4/7; cf. also gest-Móinn ‘guest-Móinn’ among the heiti for ‘sword’, Þul Sverða 9/7). According to Falk (1914b, 167), fík-Móinn must refer to the shape (or ornamentation) of a helmet (see also Marold 1998). The A, B variant fisk-Móinn ‘fish-Móinn’ is difficult to explain as a term for ‘helmet’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  3. Marold, Edith. 1998a. ‘Die Augen des Herrschers’. In Meier 1998, 7-29.
  4. Internal references
  5. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 806.
  6. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Orma heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 933.

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