[7] vargr (m.) ‘wolf’: This is probably a sword-heiti derived from sword-kennings with vargr as a base-word (cf. HSt Frag 6/4 benvargr ‘wound-wolf [SWORD]’). Cf. such similar heiti in this þula as verulfr ‘man-wolf’ (st. 4/3) and vitnir ‘wolf’ (st. 6/7). None of these words occurs as poetic terms for ‘sword’ (see also Falk 1914b, 62).
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Hallar-Steinn, Fragments 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 208.