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Note to Þul Øxna 3III

[6] hreiði: So C (‘hreði’, R, , A, B, is unmetrical and cannot be interpreted as making any sense). Hreiði is a hap. leg. and the meaning of the word cannot be established with any certainty. It may be related to Norwegian terms for ‘cow’ with the second element ‑reid; AEW: hreiði). According to Olsen (1938b, 71), the word means ‘horned’ and is related to hrútr m. ‘ram’ and hreinn m. ‘reindeer’. Holthausen (1942, 270) connects hreiði with the strong verb hrína ‘scream’ (cf. the semantically similar ox-names in ll. 5-6). See also note to st. 2/6 hríðr above.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. Holthausen, Ferdinand. 1942. ‘Etymologisches und Grammatisches’. BGDSL 66, 265-75.
  4. Olsen, Magnus. 1938b. ‘Reid i norske kunavn’. MM, 71.

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