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Note to Þul Sverða 5III

[6] huglognir (m.) ‘clinch-failer’: A cpd not found elsewhere, whose first element is most likely *hugr (cf. hugró ‘clinch-plate’, st. 12/3), a metal clinch on a sword’s hilt. The second element must be an agent noun from a weak verb *logna derived from the p. p. loginn of the strong verb ljúga ‘lie’. Huglognir would then be a sword whose upper clinch was easily broken off (so Falk 1914b, 53; cf. ljúgfengr ‘fail-striking one’, st. 10/5). The , A and B variant húðlognir m. means ‘skin-failer’ (so also the LaufE mss).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  3. Internal references
  4. (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 11 May 2024)

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