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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Skipa 2III

[3] bakki (m.) ‘ferry’: Possibly a small flat-bottomed boat for transportation, most likely a loanword from MLG back ‘vat’ < Lat. bacca ‘vessel’. Other than in the present stanza, the word occurs in Old Norse only as the first element of the cpd bakkastokkar m. pl. ‘berth in which a ship is built’ (CVC: bakka-stokkar; Falk 1912, 87).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
  3. Falk, Hjalmar. 1912. Altnordisches Seewesen. Wörter und Sachen 4. Heidelberg: Winter.

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