[8] hnefi (m.) ‘fist’: Possibly referring to the hilt of a sword (cf. blóðhnefi ‘blood-fist’, which is mentioned among the Heiti á sverði ‘Names for parts of the sword’, st. 10/6). Alternatively, hnefi could designate a sword with a certain shape of the hilt (so Falk 1914b, 51). The word is also listed in Þul á hendi l. 7 and Þul Sækonunga 5/5. The C variant nefi m. ‘nephew’ makes no sense in the context.
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga heiti 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 685.
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Heiti á hendi’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 967. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3245> (accessed 25 April 2024)