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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Fiska 2III

[5] fyldingr (m.): A hap. leg. and an unknown species of fish. The word seems to be derived from fold ‘earth’, and hence it may denote a groundling or a flat fish (cf. ÍO: fylding(u)r). Alternatively, the correct form of this heiti might have been fylvingr, which is possibly the C variant (see Nordgaard 1912, 59), but the word is difficult to read in that ms.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  3. Nordgaard, O. 1912. ‘Fiskenavnene i Snorres Edda’. MM, 54-66.

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