[8] vígglaðr (m.) ‘battle-bright one’: A cpd not found elsewhere in skaldic poetry as a heiti for ‘shield’, from víg n. ‘fight, battle’ and the adj. glaðr (see also veðrglaðr ‘wind-bright one’, l. 6 above). The f. form vígglǫð is listed among the heiti for ‘axe’ (Þul Øxar l. 8) and ‘troll-woman’ (Þul Trollkvenna 5/5), and the m. form occurs in the rímur in a kenning for ‘battle’ (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: vígglaðr).
References
- Bibliography
- Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Trollkvenna heiti 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 730.
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Øxar heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 813. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3195> (accessed 25 April 2024)