[7] skreyfir (m.) ‘heaper’: A hap. leg. The spelling varies in the mss: ‘skreivir’ R, ‘screuuir’ Tˣ, ‘skræuir’ C, ‘skryfir’ A, ‘skríd-’ B (the LaufE mss have ‘skrÿver’ (papp10ˣ), ‘skryuer’ (2368ˣ) and ‘skryver’ (743ˣ)). Cf. ModIcel. skreyfa, New Norw. skrøyva ‘to heap high’. The term may denote a sword that piles up a heap of corpses (Falk 1914b, 59).
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- 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 25 April 2024)