[1] skerkir (m.) ‘noise-maker’: An agent noun from a weak verb *skerkja ‘make noise’, from skark n. ‘noise, tumult’. The word is also found as a heiti for ‘fire’ and ‘giant’ (Þul Elds 1/6, Þul Jǫtna I 4/4), but it does not occur elsewhere. It could be that the sword-heiti is used in the sense ‘fire’, because terms for ‘fire’ frequently appear as base-words in sword-kennings.
References
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jǫtna heiti I 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 713.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Elds heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 921.