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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Á 3III

[5] alin (f.) ‘nourished one’: Not otherwise attested as a river-name and probably the f. nom. sg. form of the p. p. of the strong verb ala ‘feed’ (Finnur Jónsson 1933-4, 264: den svulmende ‘the swelling one’). Alternatively, Alin has been identified as the River Alne or Aln in North Yorkshire (CVC 780; Bugge 1875, 220). The C, A variant alm (m. acc. sg. ‘elm’) must be a scribal error.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
  3. Bugge, Sophus. 1875. ‘Biskop Bjarne Kolbeinssøn og Snorres Edda’. ÅNOH, 209-46.
  4. Finnur Jónsson. 1933-4. ‘Þulur’. APS 8, 262-72.

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