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Note to Þul Sverða 3III

[3] mundriði (m.) ‘hand-swinger’: This heiti is formed from mund f. ‘hand’ and the strong verb ríða ‘swing’ (cf. LP: mundriði: som spiller i hånden ‘which plays in the hand’; AEW: mundriði). Alternatively, Falk (1914b, 56), maintains that the sword-heiti originally was a term for a part of a sword, mundriðr or mundriði (see st. 12/5 below), synonymous with hepti n. ‘the haft of a short sword (sax)’ (hence lit. ‘one equipped with a saxhepti’). Mundriði is also the name of a part of a shield (LP: mundriði), and hence the word appears in shield-kennings. It is used in the rímur as a poetic word for ‘shield’ (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: mundriði)

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  4. Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  5. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.

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