Note to Þul Skjaldar 3III
[1] yrlygr (m.) ‘battler’: Or ørlygr (so C). The word is derived from the battle-heiti ørlygi (see Þul Orrostu 2/6), ‘one engaged in battle’. ON ørlygi ‘battle’ is probably derived from Gmc *uz-lugja, lit. ‘not legally binding’; cf. Goth liugan ‘marry, enter a legal agreement’ (Finnur Jónsson 1926, 211; AEW: ørlygi). The word is also listed in Þul Hauks 2/1 but not found elsewhere. According to Falk (1914b, 146), the shield-heiti yrlygr might have been derived from the term for ‘hawk’, denoting a shield decorated with the image of a hawk (cf. Þiðreks saga, Þiðr 1853, 189: á þeim skildi er markaðr með gulli haukr ‘on that shield there is a hawk drawn with gold’).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Finnur Jónsson. 1926. ‘Oversigt over det norsk(-islandske) navneforråd för o. år 900. Med tillæg: De norsk( -islandske) tilnavne fra samme tid’. ÅNOH 16, 175-244.
- Þiðr 1853 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1853. Saga Ðiðriks konungs af Bern. Fortælling om kong Thidrik af Bern og hans kæmper, i norsk bearbeidelse fra det trettende aarhundrede efter tydske kilder. Christiania (Oslo): Werner.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Orrostu heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 788.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hauks heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 943.