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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Sverða 11III

[1] emjar ‘howls’: A hap. leg. The word is either f. pl. (-ar) or possibly m. sg. (-arr), an agent noun derived from the weak verb emja ‘howl’ (see Falk 1914b, 49). Although the word is listed among names for parts of the sword, it must be rather a sword-heiti invented according to a semantic pattern (‘noise-maker’) widely used in the þulur (cf. such similar names for sword as gellir ‘yeller’ and gjallr ‘clamouring one’  (st. 1/5-6), galmr ‘clanging one’ (st. 2/5), gelmingr ‘clamourer’ (st. 12/1).

References

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

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