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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Skipa 6III

[8] farnagli (m.) ‘vessel-nail’: This could refer to a plug in the bottom of a ship that could be pulled out when a ship was beached so as to allow the bilge water to escape (the same as ModIcel. negla ‘plug’; cf. Falk 1912, 7). Alternatively, it could denote ‘a long nail to pass through a wide bracket into the piece it supported in a ship’ (so SnE 1998, II, 270). The term farnagli is not known from other sources.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Falk, Hjalmar. 1912. Altnordisches Seewesen. Wörter und Sachen 4. Heidelberg: Winter.
  3. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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