[4] hélugbarði (m.) ‘rimy-prowed one’: From the adj. hélugr ‘hoary’ and barð n. ‘prow’ (see barðkaldr ‘prow-cold one’ in l. 2 above). As a term for ‘ship’ this heiti occurs only in this þula, but it is the name of a horse ridden by a ghost in a dream stanza (Anon (Nj) 1/2V (Nj 42)). The phrase hélug bǫrð ‘rime-spread prows, frosted prows’ also occurs in Arn Hryn 11/4II and Mark Eirdr 14/4II.
References
- Internal references
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2022, ‘Njáls saga 42 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Njáls saga 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1277.
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Hrynhenda, Magnússdrápa 11’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 196-7.
- Jayne Carroll (ed.) 2009, ‘Markús Skeggjason, Eiríksdrápa 14’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 445.