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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Fiska 3III

[5] glǫmmungr (m.) ‘noise-maker’: Most likely derived from glam(m) n. ‘noise’. Faulkes (SnE 1998, II, 291) suggests that it might be a term for ‘gurnard’. The word is not used in skaldic poetry but it occurs several times in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: glǫmmungr).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  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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