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Note to Þul Øxar 1III

[10, 11] arghyrna ... øfst (f.) ‘weak-horn ... the last’: While the other mss have (normalised) øfst ‘last’, the reading in ms. R is (normalised) œzt ‘the highest’, which hardly fits the sense of arghyrna lit. ‘weak-horn’ (from the adj. argr ‘wretch, coward’ and hyrna ‘horn, corner of an axe’, see l. 1 above; Falk 1914b, 115). The heiti is otherwise known only from one of Skallagrímr’s lausavísur (Skall Lv 3/5V (Eg 6)), where it is a pejorative name for a defective snaghyrnd øx (on the latter term, see Note to l. 7 above).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  3. Internal references
  4. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2022, ‘Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar 6 (Skallagrímr Kveldúlfsson, Lausavísur 3)’ 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. 172.

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