[8] brunnmigi (m.) ‘spring-pisser’: A kind of folklore hobgoblin who polluted drinking water by urinating in springs and wells (CVC: brunnmigi; cf. Hálf ch. 5, FSN II, 29). The heiti, from brunnr m. ‘spring, well’ and the strong verb míga ‘piss’, is not found in skaldic verse.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 303. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=75> (accessed 25 April 2024)