[7] snaga (f.) ‘spiked one’: Most likely the same as snaghyrna (ÍO: snaga 1) or snaghyrnd øx, i.e. ‘an axe with sharply curved or hook-like points on a crescent-shaped or D-shaped blade’ (so SnE 1998, II, 397; Falk 1914b, 107-8, 202). Snaghyrnd øx is often mentioned in sagas, but the simplex snaga is found only in this þula and as a proper name in Sturlunga saga (Stu 1946, I, 327).
References
- Bibliography
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Stu 1946 = Jón Jóhannesson, Magnús Finnbogason and Kristján Eldjárn, eds. 1946. Sturlunga saga. 2 vols. Reykjavík: Sturlungaútgáfan.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Sturlunga saga’ in Guðrún Nordal (ed.), Poetry on Icelandic History. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 4. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=88> (accessed 19 April 2024)