[3] hjalmunlá (f.) ‘rudder-wave’: Or hjǫlmunlá. As a river-name, the word is difficult to interpret, although the meaning of the two elements of the cpd is clear: hjǫlm ‘rudder’ and lá ‘the line of shoal water along the shore’ (cf. lá in Þul Sjóvar 4/2), hence ‘rudder-wave’. According to Bugge (1875, 223), Hjalmunlá is the Hjálmundalsá mentioned in Orkn (ch. 78, ÍF 34, 177), now the River Helmsdale in Sutherland, Scotland.
References
- Bibliography
- ÍF 34 = Orkneyinga saga. Ed. Finnbogi Guðmundsson. 1965.
- Bugge, Sophus. 1875. ‘Biskop Bjarne Kolbeinssøn og Snorres Edda’. ÅNOH, 209-46.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Orkneyinga saga’ 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, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=47> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sjóvar heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 836.