[5] bestingr (m.) ‘haltered one’: Lit. ‘one haltered with a rope of bast’ (see SnE 1998, II, 243). The word is derived from bast n. ‘bast’ and could be a term for a tame bear. In skaldic poetry, this heiti is found in GOdds Lv 8/2IV.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite (GOdds Lv 8IV)