[5] gróa (f.) ‘growing one’: The word is attested only as a f. pers. n. (of a prophetess, Svipdagr’s mother, in Grógaldr 1/1, and of a sorceress, the wife of Aurvandill in Skm, SnE 1998, I, 22). According to Falk (1914b, 51), the f. gender implies that the word ought to be a heiti for ‘axe’, and he believes that it could have been included among the sword-heiti by mistake.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 19 April 2024)