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Note to Þul Hjálms 2III

[1] kellir (m.) ‘head covering’: A poetic term for ‘helmet’, otherwise found only in KormǪ Lv 34/3V (Korm 53). The origin and meaning of this heiti are obscure, and none of the proposed derivations are unproblematic from a phonological point of view. In LP: kellir, the word is related to kollr m. ‘head’, hence ‘head covering’ (adopted in this edn). According to Falk (1914b, 162 n. 1), kellir is a loanword from OIr. celbir ‘helmet’, while de Vries (AEW: kellir) finds a parallel to this word in ModGer. Kelle ‘scoop’, and suggests that the lit. meaning might have been ‘hollow object’ (see also ÍO: kellir 2). This heiti also occurs several times in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: kellir).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  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.
  4. Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  5. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  6. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  7. Internal references
  8. Edith Marold (ed.) 2022, ‘Kormáks saga 53 (Kormákr Ǫgmundarson, Lausavísur 34)’ 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. 1118.

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