[6] skerðir (m.) ‘diminisher’: Cf. skerðingr ‘notcher’ (st. 7/2). As a sword-heiti the word is not found elsewhere. Falk (1914b, 59) suggests that the heiti might have been taken from KormǪ Lv 27/7-8V (Korm 31), where the sword Skǫfnungr (see Note to st. 7/4) is described as skerðir þrafna fetils ‘diminisher of the staff of the baldric’ because it notched the edge of the sword Hvítingr (see st. 7/5).
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2022, ‘Kormáks saga 31 (Kormákr Ǫgmundarson, Lausavísur 27)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1077.