[7] tíðungr (m.) ‘yearling’: A term for a one-year-old bull, derived from tíð f. ‘time’ (NN §2158C). Cf. New Norw. tidung ‘mature bull’, MHG zītkuo ‘two-year-old cow’, zītec ‘mature’. The word does not occur elsewhere in poetry.
References
- Bibliography
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.