[5] ónn (m.): An undefined part of a sword. Cf. the man-kenning Tý ónhjalta ‘the Týr of sword-hilts’ in Þorm Lv 16/2I (see Note there). According to Falk (1914b, 19), the word is identical with ModSwed. dialectal ån (cf. MHG jān) ‘row of mown grass or reaped grain’ and denotes the decoration on a sword, perhaps the patterning on the sword-blade. See also the Note to Þul Dverga 3/4.
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, Dverga heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 697.
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Þormóðr Kolbrúnarskáld, Lausavísur 16’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 827.