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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Hvala 1III

[1] hafrhvalr (m.) ‘buck-whale’: A cpd from hafr m. ‘buck, billy-goat’ and hvalr m. ‘whale’, thus ‘male whale’ (so Nordgaard 1920, 110), and not attested elsewhere. Cf. ModIcel. höfrungur ‘dolphin’ (Delphinus delphis), which is not attested earlier than the C16th (ÍO: höfrungur).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  3. Nordgaard, O. 1920. ‘Forklaringer til de viktigste av Kongespeilets dyrenavne’. In Brenner 1920, 107-17.

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