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Note to Þul Sverða 8III

[4] naglfari (m.) ‘nail-studded one’: Or ‘rivet-farer(?)’. Probably denoting a sword with a hilt decorated with rows of rivets (cf. OE Nægling, the name of Beowulf’s sword; see Beowulf 2008, 471 and references there). See Falk (1914b, 57) and Bragi Rdr 5/3 (see Note to ll. 3-4 there). Alternatively, Lie (1982, 340-1) takes the second element ‑fari in the sense ‘destroyer’ (cf. Fritzner: fara 13, 14) and interprets this heiti as ‘one who destroys spikes (naglar)’, i.e. ‘knife’. See also Note to Þul Skipa 1/7.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
  3. Beowulf 2008 = Fulk, Robert D., Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, eds. 2008. Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg. 4th rev. edn of Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, ed. Fr. Klaeber. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press.
  4. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  5. Lie, Hallvard. 1982. Om sagakunst og skaldskap: Utvalgte avhandlinger. Øvre Ervik: Alvheim & Eide.
  6. Internal references
  7. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Skipa heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 861.
  8. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 35.
  9. Not published: do not cite ()

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