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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Skjaldar 3III

[4] miðfjǫrnir (m.) ‘mid-helmet’: So B. An otherwise unattested cpd from mið- ‘mid-’ and fjǫr n. ‘life’ or fjǫrnir ‘helmet’ (hence ‘mid-helmet’, i.e. ‘helmet protecting the middle of the body’). Falk (1914b, 152 n. 3) prefers the R, C variant miðfornir lit. ‘old in the middle’, possibly referring to a shield with an old shield-boss.

References

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

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