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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sverða 9III

[4] afspringr (m.): This word is only attested in the sense ‘offspring’, which makes little sense as a heiti for ‘sword’. Faulkes (SnE 1998, II, 232) tentatively suggests a translation ‘one that springs off, rebounds’ from the strong verb springa ‘spring, leap’, but a verb-adv. collocation springa af is not attested.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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