[7] gest-Móinn (m.) ‘guest-Móinn’: An otherwise unattested cpd from gestr m. ‘guest, stranger’ (or ‘one of the gestir’, a division of the king’s men) and Móinn, the name of a mythical serpent (see Þul Orma 4/7). Hence the cpd could mean ‘the snake of a king’s man’ (so Falk 1914b, 50).
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Orma heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 933.