[7] ekla (f.) ‘want’: As a river-name the word is not found in other sources. Guðbrandur Vigfússon (CVC 780; cf. also Bugge 1875, 221) identifies Ekla as the Oykel, a river in northern Scotland, which is unlikely because that river-name otherwise appears in Old Norse sources as Ekkjall (cf. Arn Þorfdr 9/6II).
References
- Bibliography
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- Bugge, Sophus. 1875. ‘Biskop Bjarne Kolbeinssøn og Snorres Edda’. ÅNOH, 209-46.
- Internal references
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Þorfinnsdrápa 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 240-1.