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Note to Þul Grýlu 1III

[8] fóa (f.) ‘fox’: This is a Germanic term for ‘fox’ (Gmc *fuhōn, Goth. fauho ‘fox’). In Old Norse the word is found only in the present stanza, but the Orkney form fúa (= ON fóa) is attested once in Anon Mhkv 18/2III. Cf. also the Modern Icelandic p. n. Fóey lit. ‘fox-island’ (ÍO: fóa, fúa).

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  1. Bibliography
  2. ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
  3. Internal references
  4. Roberta Frank (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Málsháttakvæði 18’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1232.

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