[6] ljómi (m.) ‘brightness’: This is also the name of a dwarf (Þul Dverga 6/4), but ljómi is otherwise not attested as a heiti for ‘sword’ (or ‘dwarf’) except for an unclear instance in the later rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: ljómi). Falk (1914b, 54) argues that the word might be a half-kenning because it is frequently used as a base-word in sword-kennings (cf. LP: ljómi). Cf. also Sigrljómi ‘Battle-brightness’, the name of Hrólfr kraki’s sword (FSN III, 439, 450).
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- 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.
- 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.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dverga heiti 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 704.