[5] gellir (m.) ‘yeller’: The A, B variant gillir (so also the LaufE mss) has the same meaning. Gellir is an agent noun derived from the weak verb gella ‘cause sth. to ring, resound’ (causative formation from the strong verb gjalla ‘ring, resound’; cf. the next word). The word is also listed among the heiti for ‘ox’ (Þul Øxna 3/5). Gellir is attested in prose as a pers. n. and as a nickname (see Note to Arn Magndr 4/4II), but the word does not occur elsewhere as a heiti for ‘sword’.
References
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- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Øxna heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 888.
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Magnússdrápa 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 212-13.
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