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Note to Þul Øxna 2III

[8] eikismiðr (m.): No satisfactory explanation has been offered for this otherwise unattested cpd. The first element could be derived either from the adj. eikinn ‘savage’ (referring to a bull; CVC: eikinn) or from the noun eik f. ‘oak’. For the second element, see smiðr ‘smith’ (st. 1/6 above). Faulkes (SnE 1998, II, 263) suggests ‘oaken-smith, mighty smith’, but this would be an odd term for ‘ox’.

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. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.

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