[4] rifjungr (m.) ‘tearer’: This heiti may be related to the strong verb rífa ‘tear’ (SnE 1998, II, 377). Alternatively, it may be connected with rifr (-jar) m. ‘the beam on which the warp hung’ in ancient looms (Falk 1914b, 58). The word is found in Glúmr Gráf 7/2I.
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Alison Finlay (ed.) 2012, ‘Glúmr Geirason, Gráfeldardrápa 7’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 256.