[1] fjǫtra (f.) ‘pole’: This is perhaps the term for a wooden support (cf. New Norw. fjetra ‘wooden pin or yoke which links sledge-runner with rail’). If so, the word belongs to a type frequently used in kennings for ‘woman’ (but cf. the valkyrie-name Herfjǫtur or Herfjǫtra, Þul Valkyrja 1/6 and Note, as well as ÍO: fjǫtra). In C14th skaldic poetry the word occurs as a half-kenning (see VíglÞ Lv 7/1V (Vígl 10) and Notes to st. 1/4 and ll. 3, 4 below).
References
- Bibliography
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Heiti valkyrja 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 969.
- Klaus Johan Myrvoll (ed.) 2022, ‘Víglundar saga 10 (Víglundr Þorgrímsson, Lausavísur 7)’ 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. 1426.