[11] íugtanni (m.) ‘greedy-toothed one’: This is an obscure word, whose first element is most likely derived from an adj. *íugr ‘greedy’ and the second from tǫnn f. ‘tooth’. Mss Tˣ, B have the variant víg- ‘battle-’ (cf. vígtǫnn in Grett Lv 3/8V (Gr 11)). See also LP: íugtanni, SnE 1998, II, 329 and Note to Anon (FoGT) 4/2.
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Jonathan Grove (ed.) 2022, ‘Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar 11 (Grettir Ásmundarson, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 661.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 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. 577.