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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sverða 9III

[5] sigðir (m.) ‘scythe’: From sigðr m. ‘scythe’. According to Falk (1914b, 58), the heiti either refers to old swords with curved blades or likens a sword to a sharp sickle (cf. sniðill m. ‘pruning-knife’). The A, B variant siglir (lit. ‘decorated’; cf. sigli n. ‘adornment’) could have been caused by snyrtir ‘polisher’ in the next line.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.

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