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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sverða 5III

[2] hausamølvir (m.) ‘crusher of skulls’: So , A, B. An otherwise unattested cpd from hauss m. ‘skull’ (hausa- gen. pl.) and the weak verb mølva ‘shiver, break’ (ModIcel. mölva ‘shatter, crush’), which in Old Norse occurs only in poetry (cf. Goth. gamalwjan ‘crush’; AEW: mølva). The R variant ‑mǫlnir may be a scribal error for ‑molnir from the weak verb molna ‘crumble’, hence ‘-grinder(?)’ (so SnE 1998, II, 303).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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