[1] lotti (m.): A hap. leg. The meaning of this heiti is obscure. Falk (1914b, 55) connects the word with OIr. lott ‘destruction’, while Hellquist (1891, 167) derives it from *lutaðan, ON lúta ‘bow down, give way’, cf. lota f. ‘continuous effort’. Mss B and C have (normalised) ljóti m. ‘ugly one’, which must represent independent attempts by the scribes to make sense of the word in their exemplars. The LaufE mss have ‘loti’ (papp10ˣ, 743ˣ) and ‘lote’ (2368ˣ).
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Hellquist, Elof. 1891. ‘Bidrag till läran om den nordiska nominalbildningen’. ANF 7, 1-62, 142-74.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ 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=10928> (accessed 26 April 2024)