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Note to Þul Skipa 5III

[6] sikulgjǫrð (f.) ‘rope’: This may be the term for a rope used to reduce the sail in heavy winds, a buntline (from gjǫrð ‘belt’, while the first element seems to be from Lat. cingulum ‘girdle, waist-belt, sword-belt’; Falk 1912, 66). The word is also attested as a term for ‘sword-belt’ (LP: sikulgjǫrð 2 and Hallv Knútdr 2/2). See also kalreip ‘tack’ (st. 9/7).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  3. Falk, Hjalmar. 1912. Altnordisches Seewesen. Wörter und Sachen 4. Heidelberg: Winter.
  4. Internal references
  5. Matthew Townend (ed.) 2017, ‘Hallvarðr háreksblesi, Knútsdrápa 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. 232.

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