[2] benknúar (m. pl.) ‘wound-knuckles’: A cpd not found elsewhere. Falk’s (1914b, 27) suggestion that knúar ‘knuckles’ may refer to hollow knobs on sword-hilts that contained medicine to treat wounds (ben) is not persuasive. See also SnE 1998, II, 242.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.